Bug#682172: unblock: couchdb/1.2.0-2

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 22:55 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 23:43:56 +0000, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote:
> > +++ couchdb-1.2.0/etc/init/couchdb.tpl.in
> >      mkdir -p "$RUN_DIR"
> > +    chown -R "$COUCHDB_USER" "$RUN_DIR"
> >      command="$COUCHDB -b"
> > 
> Can't the pidfile be written to before dropping privs?  chown -R feels
> rather ick, I can't see why the -R should be necessary and I can see a
> few ways it could be bad.

Ping?

Regards,

Adam