Re: [Dev] Multi-user: harcoded path /opt/usr/dbspace in specfile and CMakeLists

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 04:05:24 -0800

 

If you’re going to have multiple user accounts you are going to need a mechanism for creating new user accounts, possibly a derivative of either adduser or useradd. This mechanism (useradduser? J) could create these databases and files just as it would have to create other user profile information.


I see a few issues in that proposition :

 - adduser run with privilege, it"s simpler to let the App create it's own user DB at the first run (generic model for most Linux App) if those do not exist. Access Right will then setup correctly be default.
 - time to add a user will get longer and longer when App are added on the system even if the new user do not need these App. Feedback in progress is not easy to provide
 - if a one App init script fails, it not simple/reliable to recover and process other App init script
 - if the user DB is lost or currupted for any raison, you need to reinstall the App to trigger the yser DB creation.
 - adduser feature quality become depend of App init script quality on which we have no control.

For all these issues, I strongly think that we should let the App create it's own DB on first run and not push that service in the adduser facility.

Dominig
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