[SPAM!] Daemons and tricky permissions

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:54:08PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:52:06AM -0500, Alejandro Rios Peña wrote:

> > I've also tried starting the daemons with "--group asterisk"  and
> > "--chuid asterisk:asterisk", but it doesn't work.
> 
> from the start-stop-daemon man page you should read:
> 
> "-c|--chuid username|uid"
> ...
> "The --group option is only for groups that the user isn’t
>  normally a  member  of  (like  adding  per process group
>  membership for generic users like nobody)."
> 
> In your case you used the --group option and you also used the --chuid
> option with "asterisk:asterisk" argument. From my point of view you should
> use either "--chuid asterisk" or "--group asterisk".

IIRC setting just the group without explicitly setting the user will not
work (at least in Sarge). Hence the Asterisk init.d script has --chuid
root .



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