#21 add daemon user

DStarGateway/DStarGatewayApp.cpp

@@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	}
 
 	TDaemon daemon;
-	config->getGeneral(daemon);
+	config->getDaemon(daemon);
 
 	if (daemon.daemon) {
 		CLog::logInfo("Configured as a daemon, detaching ...");
-		auto res = CDaemon::daemonize(daemon.pidFile, "dstar");
+		auto res = CDaemon::daemonize(daemon.pidFile, daemon.user);
 
 		switch (res)
 		{

DStarGateway/DStarGatewayConfig.cpp

@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ bool CDStarGatewayConfig::load()
 
 bool CDStarGatewayConfig::loadDaemon(const CConfig & cfg)
 {
-	bool ret = cfg.getValue("daemon", "daemon", m_general.daemon, false);
-	ret = cfg.getValue("daemon", "pidfile", m_general.pidFile, 0, 1024, "") && ret;
+	bool ret = cfg.getValue("daemon", "daemon", m_daemon.daemon, false);
+	ret = cfg.getValue("daemon", "pidfile", m_daemon.pidFile, 0, 1024, "") && ret;
+	ret = cfg.getValue("daemon", "user", m_daemon.user, 0, 1024, "") && ret;
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -447,7 +448,7 @@ void CDStarGatewayConfig::getGPSD(TGPSD & gpsd) const
 }
 #endif
 
-void CDStarGatewayConfig::getGeneral(TDaemon & gen) const
+void CDStarGatewayConfig::getDaemon(TDaemon & gen) const
 {
-	gen = m_general;
+	gen = m_daemon;
 }

DStarGateway/DStarGatewayConfig.h

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 typedef struct {
 	bool daemon;
 	std::string pidFile;
+	std::string user;
 } TDaemon;
 
 typedef struct {
@@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ public:
 #ifdef USE_GPSD
 	void getGPSD(TGPSD & gpsd) const;
 #endif
-	void getGeneral(TDaemon & gen) const;
+	void getDaemon(TDaemon & gen) const;
 
 private:
 	bool open(CConfig & cfg);
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ private:
 #ifdef USE_GPSD
 	TGPSD m_gpsd;
 #endif
-	TDaemon m_general;
+	TDaemon m_daemon;
 
 	std::vector<TRepeater *> m_repeaters;
 	std::vector<TircDDB *> m_ircDDB;

DStarGateway/example.cfg

@@ -179,5 +179,5 @@ password=CHANGE_ME # If password is left blank, remote will be disabled regardle
 
 [Daemon]
 daemon=false
-# pid file is in our case useless when running as a daemon  using systemd as systemd handles all the pid stuff for us
-pidfile=#/var/run/dstargateway/dstargateway.pid 
+pidfile=/var/run/dstargateway/dstargateway.pid # pid file is in our case useless when running as a daemon  using systemd as systemd takes care of the service not being started twice
+user=dstar # user account the daemon will run under, ideally a user with low privileges