[Freeswitch-docs] Freeswitch binary user and group

[Bote Man]

This discussion concerns the documentation for building FreeSWITCH from source. The packages take care of themselves.

I wrote the part instructing users to chown freeswitch:daemon

If it's better to chown freeswitch:freeswitch then by all means change it, but then the group 'freeswitch' must be created, where 'daemon' already exists as one of the system groups. 

I do not have the expertise to know which is the best choice, so I rely on those more knowledgeable than I.

Thanks.

Bote



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanislav Sinyagin
> Sent: Thursday, 01 October, 2015 11:53
> To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team
> Cc: Niek Vlessert
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] Freeswitch binary user and group
> 
> why docs and not the users list?
> 
> The current package installer sets up the freeswitch group. I think
> it's quite alright to have it like this.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com>
> wrote:
> > Choosing the daemon group made sense to me, but if others know a
> better
> > group by all means change it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I discovered that FS must be started as root, then it quickly drops
> > privileges. As to file owner and group, I’m not so sure.
> >
> >
> >
> > It’s probably best to carry out this discussion on the FS-docs mailing list
> > where others can see it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bote
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Niek Vlessert [mailto:niekvlessert at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, 01 October, 2015 07:01
> > To: Bote Man
> > Subject: Freeswitch user and group
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello Bote,
> >
> >
> >
> > On the Freeswitch Confluence you are the one who changed the 1.6
> > installation page adding this:
> >
> >
> >
> > Because you most likely built FreeSWITCH™ as root you must now create
> the
> > user 'freeswitch' in group 'daemon' and change the FS files to owner =
> > freeswitch and group = daemon (to allow system services to interact with
> FS)
> > and set the file mode appropriately
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm building some things to make it easier for people to get Freeswitch
> > running after make install (Jira FS-7910 if you're interested). Now there is
> > some discussion if the daemon group is the correct one or the freeswitch
> > group. Could you shed some light on 'allow system services to interact with
> > FS'?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance, regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Niek
> >
> >
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