Sharing system users for related services

Sharing system users for related services

[raingloom]

I'm packaging the Molly Brown Gemini server and I'm trying to play nice
with the already packaged gmnisrv.
Should the two use the same service name and system users? Most users
probably won't want to run both servers at the same time, so the former
seems like a good idea. And the latter would be preferable because if
they use the same certs, %gmnisrv-activation will trample over the
permissions when they do want to run both for some reason.

So should I just reuse %gmnisrv-accounts or should they both use a
shared %gemini-server-accounts?

Re: Sharing system users for related services

[Leo Prikler]

Hi raingloom,

Am Montag, den 22.03.2021, 13:40 +0100 schrieb raingloom:
> I'm packaging the Molly Brown Gemini server and I'm trying to play
> nice
> with the already packaged gmnisrv.
> Should the two use the same service name and system users? Most users
> probably won't want to run both servers at the same time, so the
> former
> seems like a good idea. And the latter would be preferable because if
> they use the same certs, %gmnisrv-activation will trample over the
> permissions when they do want to run both for some reason.
> 
> So should I just reuse %gmnisrv-accounts or should they both use a
> shared %gemini-server-accounts?
As the one, who wrote the code, that lets you share accounts as list
"pointers" in the first place, I do think something along the lines of 
  (define %molly-brown-accounts %gmnisrv-accounts)
with an appropriate comment should be fine, especially for a proof of
concept implementation.  That being said, patch review is an ideal
opportunity to bikeshed such definitions ;)

Regards,
Leo