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lighttpd: run as non-privileged user www-data

Message ID 1430410336-8292-1-git-send-email-bos@je-eigen-domein.nl
State Accepted
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Floris Bos April 30, 2015, 4:12 p.m. UTC
Previously the stock lighttpd configuration was patched to run as user root,
because we do not have a lighttpd user.
Patch it to use www-data instead, which is a user available in the default
skeleton, and is the same other webserver packages (like nginx) use.

Signed-off-by: Floris Bos <bos@je-eigen-domein.nl>
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 package/lighttpd/0001-Fix-default-config-file.patch | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Thomas Petazzoni May 1, 2015, 8:02 a.m. UTC | #1
Dear Floris Bos,

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:12:16 +0200, Floris Bos wrote:
> Previously the stock lighttpd configuration was patched to run as user root,
> because we do not have a lighttpd user.
> Patch it to use www-data instead, which is a user available in the default
> skeleton, and is the same other webserver packages (like nginx) use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Floris Bos <bos@je-eigen-domein.nl>
> ---
>  package/lighttpd/0001-Fix-default-config-file.patch | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

Thomas
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diff --git a/package/lighttpd/0001-Fix-default-config-file.patch b/package/lighttpd/0001-Fix-default-config-file.patch
index 88d2c6f..bffc2a8 100644
--- a/package/lighttpd/0001-Fix-default-config-file.patch
+++ b/package/lighttpd/0001-Fix-default-config-file.patch
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@  diff -Nurp a/doc/config/lighttpd.conf b/doc/config/lighttpd.conf
  ##
 -server.username  = "lighttpd"
 -server.groupname = "lighttpd"
-+# server.username  = "lighttpd"
-+# server.groupname = "lighttpd"
++server.username  = "www-data"
++server.groupname = "www-data"
  
  ## 
  ## enable core files.