[OpenSIPS-Users] restart_persistency Permission denied

[Liviu Chircu]

On 05.11.2021 02:14, Marcin Groszek wrote:
> after I changed the ownership of the .restart_persistency.cache to 
> opensips I was able to start daemon as opensips user.
>
> Is this proper way of doing this or just a poor workaround?

Hi Marcin,

This is an interesting report and although it looks like the devs could 
do something to improve your experience, ultimately I think this is a 
sysadmin runtime configuration error.  Here is my reasoning:

* by default, OpenSIPS starts as "root" user, with work directory "/".  
So drouting should work fine, as there is full permission to write to 
the "/" directory.

* in your case, you are downgrading permissions from "root" user to 
"opensips" user, but you are not customizing the "-w" work directory 
option, which remains "/". So, of course the "opensips" user cannot 
write to "/".

Hope this helps,

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