How do I run uWSGI as a limited-access user?
I have Django setup in NGINX + uWSGI. I'm able to get it running fine under my current logged in user (with help from a question I asked few days back) but now I want to run uwsgi --ini uwsgi.ini as a limited-access user.
Here is what I've done so far:
1. Created a user djangouser without login access and without a home directory.
2. Added user nginx into group djangouser
3. Placed my django files into /mnt/django directory and changed file permissions of django to drwxrwx--- djangouser djangouser (recursive)
4. Changed the conf files to match the file locations
uwsgi.ini file
[uwsgi]
chdir=/mnt/django/project/awssite
module=awssite.wsgi
home=/mnt/django/project
master=true
processes=2
uid=djangouser
gid=djangouser
socket=/mnt/django/djangosocket/awssite.socket
chmod-socket
vacuum=true
When I try to run uwsgi --ini uwsgi.ini, this is the error I get
[uWSGI] getting INI configuration from uwsgi.ini
*** Starting uWSGI 2.0.12 (64bit) on [Thu Feb 18 00:18:25 2016] ***
compiled with version: 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9) on 01 February 2016 04:17:11
os: Linux-4.1.13-19.31.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 00:25:47 UTC 2016
nodename: ip-10-200-1-89
machine: x86_64
clock source: unix
detected number of CPU cores: 1
current working directory: /home/ec2-user
detected binary path: /usr/local/bin/uwsgi
!!! no internal routing support, rebuild with pcre support !!!
chdir() to /mnt/django/project/awssite
chdir(): Permission denied [core/uwsgi.c line 2586]
chdir(): Permission denied [core/uwsgi.c line 1608]
Note: When I added my logged in user to djangouser group, uwsgi --ini uwsgi.ini ran fine and I was able to load the django pages.
I'm not sure where else to add permissions to allow this to work. Adding sudo chown-socket=djangouser:djangouser in uwsgi.ini didn't work either.
I appreciate the help :)
Answer
If you want to run uWSGI as particular user, there are only 2 options:
- run uWSGI server directly from this user
- run uWSGI as root and add uid and gid options.