Bug 318025

Summary:	net-p2p/freenet-9999: wrong permissions on /var/freenet
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Justus Ranvier <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Thomas Sachau <tommy>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	net-p2p, pchrist
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Justus Ranvier 2010-05-01 17:13:33 UTC

When freenet-9999 is installed it creates /var/freenet owned by root:root instead of freenet:freenet. This prevents the application from starting because it can't write to it's own work directory unless you run the daemon as root.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Thomas Sachau gentoo-dev

2010-05-05 16:17:56 UTC

If you had a clean system (no freenet user, no /var/freenet), then the dir should be created with the right permssions with the freenet user as owner.

Did you create a freenet user previously, did you have a very early version of the ebuild installed or existed /var/freenet before?

Comment 2 Justus Ranvier 2010-06-25 13:26:03 UTC

I tried a completely clean install and this time /var/freenet was owned by freenet:root.

I tried to confirm the original behavior by uninstalling freenet without deleting the freenet user and this time it made /var/freenet owned by freenet:freenet.