[Buildroot] [pull request v3] Pull request for branch yem-package-create-user
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Jan 3 21:47:21 UTC 2013
Hello All!
Here is a series that allows packages to create users.
Packages that install daemons may well want to run those daemons as
non-root users to avoid security issues. Currently, there are two users
of choice to run 'generic' daemons: root or daemon (although there are
a few dedicated users to run a few services: mail, sshd, ftp...).
This series builds upon both the package infrastrucutre to define the
user(s) a package may want to create, and the filesystem infrastructure
to actually generate these users, and chown their ${HOME}s.
Documentation is updated accordingly.
Note: for now, users' passwords are md5-encrypted. Once the pending
change to introduce alternative password-encryption schemes is applied,
we can use that to encode users' passwords, too.
As a proof of concept, the package tvheadend has been updated to use
a dedicated user to run its daemon as (call me stubborn! ;-] ).
Changes v2 -> v3:
- clarify password prefixes (Samuel)
- move makeuser syntax doc to its own file (Samuel)
- use awk instead of sed to parse /etc/passwd et al. (Cam, Thomas)
- sanitise use of grep (Cam)
- enhancements and fixes to makuser syntax doc (Cam)
Changes v1 -> v2:
- drop the gshadow patch (Thomas, Peter)
- tvheadend user is now part of the video secondary group
The following changes since commit 31ff7b5eac3883a11faf60d9af0b47bfc2d903f3:
docs: 2012.11.1 is out (2013-01-03 22:02:10 +0100)
are available in the git repository at:
git://gitorious.org/buildroot/buildroot.git yem-package-create-user
Yann E. MORIN (2):
packages: add ability for packages to create users
package/tvheadend: use a non-root user to run the daemon
docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 16 ++-
docs/manual/appendix.txt | 1 +
docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt | 87 ++++++++
fs/common.mk | 5 +-
package/pkg-generic.mk | 1 +
package/tvheadend/etc.default.tvheadend | 5 +-
package/tvheadend/tvheadend.mk | 10 +-
support/scripts/mkusers | 359 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
8 files changed, 476 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt
create mode 100755 support/scripts/mkusers
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN
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