couchdb user created with wrong home directory

[jabronson@…]

currently installing the couchdb port creates a "couchdb" user without specifying the home directory, so it gets set to /dev/null, resulting in the following:

$ sudo -H -u couchdb /opt/local/bin/couchdb
=ERROR REPORT==== 6-Jan-2010::16:14:48 ===
file:path_eval([".","/dev/null"],".erlang"): not a directory
...

The couchdb user's home directory should be set to /opt/local/var/lib/couchdb. After I ran dscl . change /Users/couchdb NFSHomeDirectory /dev/null /opt/local/var/lib/couchdb, the error went away.

The following patch ought to fix this, as well as set the shell to something valid while we're at it:

Index: Portfile
===================================================================
--- Portfile	(revision 62405)
+++ Portfile	(working copy)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 post-destroot {
     addgroup ${dbgroup}
-    adduser ${dbuser} gid=[existsgroup ${dbgroup}]
+    adduser ${dbuser} gid=[existsgroup ${dbgroup}] home=${dbdir} shell=/bin/bash
     xinstall -m 755 -o ${dbuser} -g ${dbgroup} -d \
 	${destroot}${dbdir} \
 	${destroot}${logdir} \

[bfulgham@…]

I don't see this problem under a recent Erlang and couchdb build.

Are you still experiencing this problem, or can we close this out?

[jabronson@…]

Sorry, can't test at the moment. Feel free to close if you can't either.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Closing as per comment:2. Note that base is now using /var/empty as the default home dir for new users. You don't want to set a shell in any case, as this is not a user that you want someone to be able to log into the machine as.