Fail explicitly instead of continuing with a warning if "phd.user" is misconfigured
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Authored by epriestley on Apr 15 2016, 8:53 PM.

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T6806: Raise severity of "phd.user" warning eventually

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rPf146f4577ea7: Fail explicitly instead of continuing with a warning if "phd.user" is…

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Fixes T6806. We haven't seen users having issues with phd.user in a very long time.

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Configured daemons to run as notepriestley, got a well-explained exception.
Configured daemons to run as epriestley, got a clean start.
Configured daemons with phd.user=null, got a clean start.

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epriestley updated this revision to Diff 37897.Apr 15 2016, 8:53 PM

epriestley retitled this revision from to Fail explicitly instead of continuing with a warning if "phd.user" is misconfigured.

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epriestley added a reviewer: chad.

epriestley added a task: T6806: Raise severity of "phd.user" warning eventually.

LGTM, I think this is the right thing to do.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 15 2016, 9:06 PM

Print slightly more information in the exception message.

Usage Exception: Daemons are configured to run as user "notepriestley" in configuration option `phd.user`, but the current user is "epriestley" and `phd` was unable to switch to the correct user with `sudo`. Command output:

Command failed with error #1!
COMMAND
exec sudo -En -u 'notepriestley' -- ./phd-daemon '-l' 'local'

STDOUT
(empty)

STDERR
sudo: unknown user: notepriestley

Closed by commit rPf146f4577ea7: Fail explicitly instead of continuing with a warning if "phd.user" is… (authored by epriestley, committed by epriestley). · Explain WhyApr 15 2016, 9:09 PM

This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

epriestley mentioned this in T12061: When problems occur in phd inside sudo error messages are neither printed nor logged.Jan 5 2017, 3:09 AM