Re: Automatically mapping services from System to Home

[Attila Lendvai]

> Thoughts?

my gut reaction is that whatever the automatic mapping does should be 
captured/reified into the code that defines a service... factoring out the 
common parts, and adding on top of that whatever is necessary in the two 
different contexts.

but then i'm not sure i fully understand the differences between these two 
contexts, and i don't have a proposal.diff either, so...

BTW, what are the differences?

 - a possible call to setuid/setgid, and their values in the config if
   the service is not to be started as root?

 - the default values of the config file and log file(s)? possibly
   some service-specific values in the config whose default value
   depend on the user/group under which the service is running?

maybe the user/group should be a mandatory value under the hood, and the 
service code should dispatch on their values and the current effective 
user/group id, and act accordingly?

what am i missing?

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