chroot build method: files owned by user outside /home/

[kalxas]

As stated by Hamish in ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/988#comment:5 we need to fix this permission issue for the live disk

[hamish]

sudo su
find / -uid 1000 | grep -v '/rofs/'

remaining in r8915 is

• gvSIG; many files
• geonetwork; many files
• sahana (web2py); many files
• mapproxy: one file
• /debian-binary (!?)
• /usr/local/share/data (!?)

Hamish

[hamish]

• i.e. the install scripts have chown'd to a user ID which no longer exists at run time

• projects are forbidden from having the user account own files outside of /home
  • it doesn't work with the chroot method. your app is most likely broken by it
  • this can break the iso
  • it is not portable if another user account is added
  • new user added suddenly owns system files
  • it's an ugly hack

• we need to know from gvSIG (is this from your .deb?), geonetwork, sahana, and mapproxy the minimal set of files/dirs, if any, that need to be writable at run-time.

thanks, Hamish

[hamish]

apparently gvSIG's deb contained all mis-assigned files. manually chown'd back to root.root with r8938. note /opt/gvSIG_1.11/bin/ is world-writable, as is bin/gvSIG/extensiones/; is that indented??

thanks, Hamish

[hamish]

most of these have been fixed now, hopefully without too much collateral damage. Sahana's web2py remains incomplete; awaiting guidance, see #992.

Hamish