Mojo RPM Plugin

Support for defining uid and guid during rpm installation

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: rpm
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    linux (fedora and redhat)
  • Number of attachments :
    0

Description

It would be nice if system administrators could set user and group during installation. This could be realized as either

export RUN_AS_USER=application1User
export RUN_AS_GROUP=applicationGroup

or with parameters to the rpm installation command.

My current workaround is:

if [ "$RUN_AS_USER" = "" ]; then
echo Variable RUN_AS_USER not set, defaulting to root.
export RUN_AS_USER=root
fi
echo Changing ownership according to RUN_AS_USER=$RUN_AS_USER
chown -Rc $RUN_AS_USER $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX
echo chmod ug+x on directories in $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX
find $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX -type d -exec chmod -c ug+x {} \;

The variable RUN_AS_USER was chosen because this variable is read by Java Service Wrapper scripts generated with appassembler-maven-plugin.

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Josh McFarlane added a comment -

Is there a clean way to do this in the RPM spec file? I think you have this issue with RPMs in general regardless of whether or not Maven is building them.

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Josh McFarlane added a comment - Is there a clean way to do this in the RPM spec file? I think you have this issue with RPMs in general regardless of whether or not Maven is building them.
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Brett Okken added a comment -

Just to make sure I understand what you are requesting, the plugin allows the ability to set user/group of all files contained in the rpm at build time. However, what you want is the ability to change the user/group of all of the files at install time?

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Brett Okken added a comment - Just to make sure I understand what you are requesting, the plugin allows the ability to set user/group of all files contained in the rpm at build time. However, what you want is the ability to change the user/group of all of the files at install time?
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Brett Okken added a comment -

Given the lack of response, I am going to close this as WON'T FIX. If anyone wants to revisit this topic in the future (with more clarity as to how to accomplish this in the SPEC), the issue can be re-opened.

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Brett Okken added a comment - Given the lack of response, I am going to close this as WON'T FIX. If anyone wants to revisit this topic in the future (with more clarity as to how to accomplish this in the SPEC), the issue can be re-opened.

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  • Assignee:
    Brett Okken
    Reporter:
    Erik Drolshammer
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