On 01/19/2018 08:14 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> >> Why not? Since /var/lib is root:root and mode 755, we can create >> /var/lib/foo while running --as=root (the default). Then afterwards, >> anything beneath /var/lib/foo would need to be created "--as" the owner >> of that directory. > > That would create an extra level of indirection for some things though, > what if /var/lib/foo needs to be owned by foo? I have /var/lib/dhcp > which is owned by dhcp:dhcp. You can't creat that with --as=dhcp. >
The same way you do it now: newpath --directory /var/lib/dhcp --owner dhcp:dhcp There's no new obstacle, because /var/lib is writable only by root and the current OpenRC user (also root, in this case). Now if you need /var/lib/dhcp/something-else to be owned by dhcp:dhcp, *then* you would do it --as=dhcp.
