FS#68783 - [gnunet] provide system service as user gnunet

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Josua Stingelin (troubas) - Sunday, 29 November 2020, 10:16 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 12:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I'm filing this report because of a message from systemd:
```
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gnunet.service:5: Special user nobody configured, this is not safe!
```

I'm assuming the not safe part comes from the practice to use the nobody user to run every service that needs no permission on disk. And thus exposing all services running with the same user if any of the services is exploited. I think it's best practice to run any distinct service using a distinct user.

The user `nobody` specifically seems to be used by NFS and shouldn't be used for any other purpose.
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nobody

To provide gnunet as a system service:
https://docs.gnunet.org/handbook/gnunet.html#The-Multi_002dUser-Setup
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 12:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  gnunet has been dropped to AUR

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