On Dec 15, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Bill wrote:

>
> The "Pylons Deployment with Daemontools" tutorial is great!
> (http://pylonshq.com/project/pylonshq/wiki/DaemonTools) The only  
> snag I
> ran into was in the /service/test/run script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec setuidgid myuser /home/myuser/bin/python -u server.py
>
> It turns out that on my system myuser belongs to more than one file
> permissions group because some of the static files being served by my
> pylons app are assigned to different permissions groups from older
> applications.  The run script, above, uses the setuidgid program from
> daemontools so that the pylons server is not running as root in
> production.  The deamontools' docs state, "setuidgid sets its uid and
> gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups."  My
> problem was that by running without myuser's supplementary groups the
> run script got permissions violations for those static files that
> belonged to one of those supplementary groups.
>
> So instead of setuidgid I used sudo, like this:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec sudo -u myuser /home/myuser/bin/python -u serve.py
>
> That solved my problem since sudo honors the permissions for myuser's
> supplementary groups.
>

Thanks for the info -- even better would be to add a blurb to the  
Wiki about it -- you can edit after logging in ;)

--
Philip Jenvey


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