Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup - Mojolicious plugin to set unprivileged credentials
# Mojolicious $self->plugin(SetUserGroup => {user => $user, group => $group}); # Mojolicious::Lite plugin SetUserGroup => {user => $user, group => $group}; # Production mode only plugin SetUserGroup => {user => $user, group => $group} if $self->mode eq 'production'; # Root only plugin SetUserGroup => {user => $user, group => $group} if $> == 0;
This plugin is intended to replace the setuidgid functionality of Mojo::Server. It should be loaded in application startup and it will change the user and group credentials of the process when Mojo::IOLoop is started, which occurs in each worker process of a Mojo::Server::Prefork daemon like hypnotoad.
setuidgid
This allows an application to be started as root so it can bind to privileged ports such as port 80 or 443, but run worker processes as unprivileged users. However, if the application is not started as root, it will most likely fail to change credentials. So, you should only set the user/group when the application is started as root or a user with the CAP_SETUID and CAP_SETGID capabilities(7).
CAP_SETUID
CAP_SETGID
This plugin only works on systems with a concept of Unix users and groups, such as Linux, OS X, or BSD.
The morbo development server is currently incompatible with this plugin as the lowered credentials causes the application worker to shut down. Make sure credential changes do not occur when running your application under morbo, either by not registering the plugin under that condition, or starting morbo under the target user and group so no change occurs.
Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup inherits all methods from Mojolicious::Plugin and implements the following new ones.
$plugin->register(Mojolicious->new, {user => $user, group => $group});
Install callback to change process credentials on the next Mojo::IOLoop tick. If option user is undefined or the current user and group are already correct, no credential change will occur. If option group is undefined but user is defined, the group will be set to a group matching the user name. If credential changes fail, an error will be logged and the process will be stopped.
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group
Dan Book, dbook@cpan.org
dbook@cpan.org
Copyright 2015, Dan Book.
This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.
Mojolicious, POSIX, Unix::Groups::FFI
To install Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Mojolicious::Plugin::SetUserGroup
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.