Re: [GNUnet-developers] few questions on opensuse (useradd, groupadd), also: where does LE_PREFIX come from?

[Christian Grothoff]

Again, here "LE_PREFIX" is just where you installed GNU libextractor (if
it is in /usr, you can omit the option), just as GNUNET_PREFIX is where
you want to install GNUnet (if it is /usr/local/, you can omit the option).

I don't think there is any 'confusion' in the documentation about the
user and the groups, it is just likely even more complicated than you
thought ;-).

Best regards,

Christian

On 11/09/2012 01:28 AM, sngh wrote:
> more stuff to the username/groupname confusion:
> at the end of ./configure --prefix=$GNUNET_PREFIX
> --with-extractor=$LE_PREFIX   (as root)
> there are some instructions showing again a mix and mess of gnunetdns, gnunet
> 
> 
> ---------
> 
> configure: ********************************************
> Please make sure NOW that you have created a user and group 'gnunet'
> and additionally a group 'gnunetdns':
>         addgroup gnunetdns
>         adduser gnunet
> 
> Make sure that '/var/lib/gnunet' is owned (and writable) by user
> 'gnunet'.  Then, you can compile GNUnet with
>         make
> 
> After that, run (if necessary as 'root')
>         make install
> to install everything.
> 
> Each GNUnet user should be added to the 'gnunet' group (may
> require fresh login to come into effect):
>         adduser  gnunet
> (run the above command as root once for each of your users, replacing
> "" with the respective login names).  If you have a global IP
> address, no further configuration is required.
> 
> Optionally, download and compile gnunet-gtk to get a GUI for
> file-sharing and configuration.  This is particularly recommended
> if your network setup is non-trivial, as gnunet-setup can be
> used to test in the GUI if your network configuration is working.
> gnunet-setup should be run as the "gnunet" user under X.  As it
> does very little with the network, running it as "root" is likely
> also harmless.  You can also run it as a normal user, but then
> you have to copy ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf" over to the "gnunet" user's
> home directory in the end.
> 
> 
> -------------
> 
> what is the correct way to do this? please fix these mixed up terms
> according to what really is being meant here.
> thanks.
> 
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