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Fixes: #2500. systemd 257 has introduced in which DynamicUser= services will use id-mapped mounts[1] instead of performing chown on the entire data directory. On Debian stable release, calibre service will contain data folders with a dynamic user ownership while on testing release, calibre service will contain data folders with nobody:nogroup ownership. When a backup from stable release is restored on testing release, the two directories are merged. The top level directory will be still owned by nobody:nogroup while the files instead will be owned by dynamic user and group. In this case, systemd will not recursively update the ownership. Calibre will fail to access the library files. The fix is to completely wipe the existing data folder before a restore. When systemd notices that the directory ownership is not properly it will recursively change the ownership before starting the service. Links: 1) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.exec.html#RuntimeDirectory= Tests: - Without patch, restore the app on testing from a backup on stable machine and notice that the data folder is owned by nobody:nogroup but files inside are owned by a calibre-server-freedombox user and group. This leads to failure when accessing the library. - With patch, restore again notice that the library is accessible and all the files are owned by nobody:nogroup. Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org> Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
FreedomBox Service (Plinth)
The core functionality and web front-end of FreedomBox.
Description
FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay, on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router, so that your data stays with you.
This module, called FreedomBox Service and also know as Plinth, is the core functionality and web interface to the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking. It also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.
You can find more information about FreedomBox Service (Plinth) on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.
Getting Started
To have a running FreedomBox, first install Debian (Buster or higher) on a clean machine. Then run:
$ sudo apt install freedombox
Full instructions are available on FreedomBox Manual's QuickStart page.
For instructions on running the service on a local machine from source code, see INSTALL.md. For instructions on setting up for development purposes, see HACKING.md.
Contributing
See the HACKING.md file for contributing to FreedomBox Service (Plinth).
Localization
License
FreedomBox is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3 or later. A copy of AGPLv3 is available from the Free Software Foundation.