Migration to GLEP-81 enabled webservers - 20/05/2022 00:00 GMT
In future, in order to complete the whole GLEP-81 migration, the packages www-servers/apache and www-servers/nginx will be migrated to GLEP-81. If changes have been made to the default user and group created by one of the both packages, the configuration needs to be updated, as otherwise it will be overwritten. The following configuration settings can be set in make.conf or per package in package.env: 1. ACCT_USER__GROUPS for overriding all default groups. 2. ACCT_USER_ _GROUPS_ADD for adding additional groups to default groups. 3. ACCT_USER_ _HOME for overriding default home directory. 4. ACCT_USER_ _HOME_OWNER for overriding default owner of home directory. 5. ACCT_USER_ _HOME_PERMS for overriding default permissions of home directory. 6. ACCT_USER_ _SHELL for overriding default assigned shell. If being set per package in package.env, it needs to be set for acct-user/apache or acct-user/nginx, depending on which user should be modified. See [1] for more details on those variables. ** Package acct-user/apache will use username/group 'apache'. -> ACCT_USER_APACHE_GROUPS=".." -> ACCT_USER_APACHE_GROUPS_ADD=".." -> ACCT_USER_APACHE_HOME=".." -> ACCT_USER_APACHE_HOME_OWNER=".." -> ACCT_USER_APACHE_HOME_PERMS=".." -> ACCT_USER_APACHE_SHELL=".." ** Package acct-user/nginx will use username/group 'nginx'. -> ACCT_USER_NGINX_GROUPS=".." -> ACCT_USER_NGINX_GROUPS_ADD=".." -> ACCT_USER_NGINX_HOME=".." -> ACCT_USER_NGINX_HOME_OWNER=".." -> ACCT_USER_NGINX_HOME_PERMS=".." -> ACCT_USER_NGINX_SHELL=".." Please update configuration parameters before emerging both GLEP-81 enabled ebuilds, as otherwise configuration will be overwritten to default. Migration to GLEP-81 will start after 2022-07-01. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/acct-user.eclass/index.html
Posted By: Conrad Kostecki