Bug#769965: minetest: please support init.d scripts and a global configuration file

[Martin Quinson]

Woot, many thanks for these changes! I'll try to fill the TODO a bit
further to seek your help on the other points ;)

I just pushed my local changes to the the git, sorry about that.

I have one main question about the server started automatically. Will
it be given a specific user id? I would not certify the security of
that server, and I'd like to sandbox it as much as possible. I plan
since a long time to check how to do that, but you have just solved
all my questions but this one.

Could you please check your changes to see if they are the most secure
ones, ie the ones that do not trust the server program but sandbox it
the most, please ?

Many many thanks for your work,
Mt.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:08:41AM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Package: src:minetest
> Version: 0.4.10+repack-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I saw that this bug was still on your TODO list. It would be great if
> the minetest server started automatically on boot. I have pushed my
> patches to the experimental branch.
> 
> Main changes are:
> 
> 1. Added a minetest-server.init script
> 2. Added postinst maintainer script to create a Debian-minetest system
>    user who uses /var/games/minetest-server as HOME directory.
> 3. Addded a postrm maintainer script to remove all files in /var/games/minetest-server on purge.
> 4. Installed the server binary to /usr/lib/minetest
> 5. Created a minetestserver wrapper script.
> 6. Installed minetest.conf to /etc/minetest/minetest.conf and the
>    server will now read from this global configuration file.
> 
> This will ensure that things like service minetest-server start/stop
> work as expected.
> 
> I am happy to answer any questions that may arise. Please note that I
> didn't push the changes to master because the latest upload to
> unstable, -2, was missing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Markus
> 

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