I spent some time going through /var/lib/dpkg/info/monotone-server.postinst
and noticed that all user:group and permissions settings on lines
124-148 were getting done except for the if-block on lines 126-140.
The if-block that isn't getting done is
==
if [ -z `id -u monotone 2/dev/null` ]; then
...
==
After purging the installed monotone-server package, the monotone user
and group where still present on the system -- so when I would reinstall
monotone-server, none of the user:group or permissions settings in that
if-block were being done on the newly created directories.
The monotone user and group were still present because of the section in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/monotone-server.postrm starting at line 80 with the
description:
==
# if deluser/delgroup exist, remove the server user and group.
# do not do this if /var/lib/monotone still exists (so that it
# will still have a named user owning it).
==
I use a key name for the monotone server that is different from the
auto-generated one, so there was still that key file in
/var/lib/monotone/keys, so /var/lib/monotone was still present and
prevented the monotone user and group from being removed, messing up
directory permissions on a reinstall.
Once I manually removed the user and group, installing monotone-server
sets the user:group and permissions correctly.
As one potential solution, would it work to move the chown and chmod
lines to just after the `id -u monotone 2/dev/null` if-block down to
with all the other chown and chmod lines being done on a new install?
That way the monotone user and group being present would only effect the
adduser command and not the settings for the newly created directories.
Potential patch is attached.
- Michael Berg
--- monotone-server.postinst 2007-11-03 23:49:54.0 -0600
+++ monotone-server.postinst.fixed 2007-11-03 23:51:31.0 -0600
@@ -127,18 +127,18 @@
adduser --system --group --home $MTN_HOME \
--no-create-home --disabled-password --quiet\
--gecos Monotone monotone
-
- chown monotone:monotone $MTN_HOME
- chown monotone:monotone $MTN_CONFDIR
- chown monotone:monotone $MTN_KEYDIR
- chown monotone:monotone /var/log/monotone
- chown monotone:monotone /var/run/monotone
-
- chmod 0750 $MTN_HOME
- chmod 0750 $MTN_CONFDIR
- chmod 0750 $MTN_KEYDIR
fi
+ chown monotone:monotone $MTN_HOME
+ chown monotone:monotone $MTN_CONFDIR
+ chown monotone:monotone $MTN_KEYDIR
+ chown monotone:monotone /var/log/monotone
+ chown monotone:monotone /var/run/monotone
+
+ chmod 0750 $MTN_HOME
+ chmod 0750 $MTN_CONFDIR
+ chmod 0750 $MTN_KEYDIR
+
chown monotone:monotone /etc/monotone/write-permissions
chown monotone:monotone /etc/monotone/read-permissions
chown monotone:monotone /etc/monotone/hooks.lua
