Your message dated Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:26:47 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#975064: Changing server.username causes lighttpd to
fail to start
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regarding Changing server.username causes lighttpd to fail to start
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Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.55-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Changing the value of 'server.username' in lighttpd.conf causes the
server to fail to start. In my particular configuration, with webdav
enabled, I get the following error:
Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
(mod_webdav.c.1153) sqlite3_open()
'/var/cache/lighttpd/lighttpd.webdav.db': unable to open database file
(server.c.1496) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
This happens because the user/group of 'www-data' is hard-coded in
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.tmpfile.conf
Thanks,
Damon
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Control: tags -1 + wontfix
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 05:26:01PM -0500, Glenn Strauss wrote:
> Perhaps you should not change server.username unless you are also
> prepared to change other scripts and filesystem ownership as
> appropriate? What are you suggesting that lighttpd do in response to
> your *manual* modification?
>
> The Debian installation provides a working set of defaults, which
> includes running lighttpd under user www-data, and includes scripts
> which manage temporary files, upload directories, databases and cache
> locations, such as the mod_webdav sqlite database.
In general, changing the user of a service packaged for Debian is a
non-trivial thing. It isn't a one-line change for many other services
and is not generally expected to just work. Implementing it would bear
an unreasonable cost for the reasons Glenn detailed. I am thus closing
the bug as something we will not fix.
Changing the username is not impossible. You "just" need to change it in
all the relevant places consistently.
Helmut
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