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Radicale - What am I supposed to do? (radicale.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I am following the Radicale docs.

And the first method is this:

as normal user Recommended only for testing

Okay, I'm not testing, so I move onto the next one:

as system user (or as root) Alternatively, you can install and run as system user or as root (not recommended):

Okay, so this method is not recommended...

And there aren't anymore.

So what's the recommended method for non-testing environments?????

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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everything should run under their own user when possible. This software is not using a privileged port (< 1000) so it doesn't need root.

The docs seem a bit lazy if that is not recommended, possibly it will try to access some files it does not have access to.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So I make a new user for it, but NOT root?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You make a new normal, non-root user specifically to run Radicale processes. The user should have write access only to Radicale's directories, nothing else.

Same deal with Apache and the www-data user.