Description of problem: Ideally searchd and the various index utilities should not be running as root - they don't specifically need root access. Unfortunately searchd doesn't drop privileges, so any privilege changes need to be done via runuser. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: N/A - feature request Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Attached are patches to the spec and to the init script adding the appropriate code to create the user on install, remove it on uninstall, and setting the appropriate permissions everywhere. Note that I'm not sure the process to add a username to the list at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry so I used user number 51 in the script. If there's a process that I should do to get that added, I'd be happy to do it.
Created attachment 373882 [details] Proposed patch to the spec file and init script
sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc12
sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc11
sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sphinx'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1792
sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sphinx'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-1814
sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
sphinx-0.9.9-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.