Description

Currently ./bin/phd start launches the daemons as the current user. The daemons should however always run as the configured phd.user.

It would be good if during run of phd commands, the user is at least warned if the current user does not match the configured user. Ideally ./bin/phd start also actively switches the user to the configured user and properly daemonizes the process.

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	Audited	D11036	rP2fedb6f941d8 Start phd daemons as the correctly configured user and refuse otherwise

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		Status	Assigned	Task
		Resolved	joshuaspence	T5196 Enforce that phd is run as the phd.user daemon user
		Resolved	joshuaspence	T6806 Raise severity of "phd.user" warning eventually

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hartman created this task.May 27 2014, 1:22 PM

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joshuaspence added a project: Daemons.May 27 2014, 3:08 PM

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Proposed an initial doc update here: https://secure.phabricator.com/D9307

joshuaspence triaged this task as Low priority.Jun 19 2014, 4:09 PM

swisspol added a subscriber: swisspol.Aug 27 2014, 6:31 PM

◀ Merged tasks: T5997.

Is it possible to get D9307: Add note to daemon documention page about running as daemon user committed? as this would certainly go a long way to help new users (like me) understand that even though the phd.user is described as 'Specify a system user to run the daemons as.' it doesn't currently mean that the users will now automatically run as that user.