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From: JR Boyens <jboyens@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Freenet questions...
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:10:11
Message-Id: 1013044142.29708.9.camel@fooninja.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Freenet questions... by Per Wigren
1 Take a look at the postfix build, it just asks the user to add the
2 'postdrop' user.
3
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5 JR Boyens
6 jboyens@×××××××.edu
7
8 On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 12:43, Per Wigren wrote:
9 > Hi!
10 >
11 > I have a working .ebuild of Freenet now that I'm very satisfied with (and I
12 > hope+think you will also be)!
13 >
14 > The problem is that it is pretty insecure (runs as root)..
15 > I'd prefer it to run as user "freenet" instead of root...
16 > I can't run it as "nobody" because then the store-file and logs have to be
17 > writable by "nobody" which is no good...
18 >
19 > How can I make the .ebuild add the user "freenet"?
20 > Any better ideas? Or should I let it be run as root?
21 >
22 > What is a good default size of the datastore?
23 > Right now I put it in /var/freenet and set the default size to 1/3rd of the
24 > *available* space on /var, up to 1GB, using some df/awk/bash-magic.. :) (To
25 > change it, just change the storeSize= parameter in /etc/freenet.conf)
26 >
27 > Regards
28 > Per Wigren
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