closes #674 - create a post-installation script to set file ownership…

… / permissions

README.rst

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ and plugins. It works on any operating system and architecture that
 supports Python, which includes Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
 
 Alignak is licensed under the Gnu Affero General Public Licence version 3 (AGPLv3).
-Unless specified by another header, this licence apply to all files in this repository 
+Unless specified by another header, this licence apply to all files in this repository
 
 Requirements
 ============
@@ -37,5 +37,3 @@ Installing Alignak
 See the `Documentation`_
 
 .. _Documentation: https://alignak-doc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/02_installation/index.html
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dev/set_permissions.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2016: Alignak team, see AUTHORS.txt file for contributors
+#
+# This file is part of Alignak.
+#
+# Alignak is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Alignak is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with Alignak.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+## Same procedure as the one done in the debian installation
+## Create user and group
+echo "Checking / creating 'alignak' user and users group"
+# Note: if the user exists, it's properties won't be changed (gid, home, shell)
+adduser  --quiet --system --home /var/lib/alignak --no-create-home --group alignak || true
+
+## Create nagios group
+echo "Checking / creating 'nagios' users group"
+addgroup --system nagios || true
+
+## Add alignak to nagios group
+id -Gn alignak |grep -E '(^|[[:blank:]])nagios($|[[:blank:]])' >/dev/null ||
+    echo "Adding user 'alignak' to the nagios users group"
+    adduser alignak nagios
+
+## Create directories with proper permissions
+for i in /usr/local/etc/alignak /usr/local/var/run/alignak /usr/local/var/log/alignak /usr/local/var/lib/alignak /usr/local/var/libexec/alignak
+do
+    mkdir -p $i
+    echo "Setting 'alignak' ownership on: $i"
+    chown -R alignak:alignak $i
+done
+
+echo "Setting file permissions on: /usr/local/etc/alignak"
+find /usr/local/etc/alignak -type f -exec chmod 664 {} +
+find /usr/local/etc/alignak -type d -exec chmod 775 {} +
+
+echo "Terminated"