home directory not writable by default

[williamtsoi1]

Hi,

Using this module and the defaults for the home directory (ie. /srv), the ownership of this directory chowned to the nexus user, and so nexus isn't able to create the /srv/.java folder in order to store preferences. Leading to errors similar to:

https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-3671

[kenbreeman]

Not sure I understand the issue correctly.

The permissions for the home directory should be set in a way that allows the nexus user to write to that directory:
https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus/blob/master/manifests/package.pp#L84-L91

Why isn't the .java folder able to be created?
Would it make sense to include creation of that .java folder in this puppet module?

[peterabbott]

I found that I had to override the home directory variable in hiera to something nested like /opt/nexus for it to properly work. The issue I found was that setting the root path for nexus to /srv (or in my case /opt) set the service users' home dir to that. It was created as root instead of the user so when the service ran it did not have permissions to write to the directory.

[williamtsoi1]

maybe then setting the default in the module to /srv/nexus or even /opt/nexus would be a better choice?

[kenbreeman]

The default is currently /srv/nexus

We set the root here:
https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus/blob/master/manifests/params.pp#L29-L30
We set the home here:
https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus/blob/master/manifests/package.pp#L47

Are you using the latest version? Am I missing something?

[tmclaugh]

The module extracts the nexus package to $nexus_root, creating a directory with the nexus version number in it. That directory is represented by $nexus_home_real

• https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus/blob/master/manifests/package.pp#L60
• https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus/blob/master/manifests/package.pp#L76-L80

$nexus_home is created at the end as a symlink to the currently running version under $nexus_home_real.

• https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus/blob/master/manifests/package.pp#L108-L112

It's confusing but was the best idea I could come up with at the time. Not sure of a better way to handle that version number.

[peterabbott]

The issue is not necessarily with the location /srv/nexus (although /opt/nexus would be a more standard install location), it is the user that gets created to run the service.

If you look at /etc/passwd you will see that it is set to /srv (using all defaults from params.pp). So when the service is started there is something inside the application that is trying to write to the users' home directory (assuming java property 'user.home').

My working around was to set the nexus_root to /opt/nexus and the service would start without any intervention.

[tmclaugh]

It's just a minor fix to the user resource in init.pp.

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On Sep 3, 2016, at 2:25 AM, Peter Abbott [email protected] wrote:

The issue is not necessarily with the location /srv/nexus (although /opt/nexus would be a more standard install location), it is the user that gets created to run the service.

If you look at /etc/passwd you will see that it is set to /srv (using all defaults from params.pp). So when the service is started there is something inside the application that is trying to write to the users' home directory (assuming java property 'user.home').

My working around was to set the nexus_root to /opt/nexus and the service would start without any intervention.

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