[SOLVED] Make Redis unixsocket owned by redis user

Issue

I have installed Redis 3.0.6 on Debian. There's a /etc/init.d/redis file which starts the Redis server when the system starts or I can invoke it manually to start/stop the server. Problem is that this script is run as root user.

I have a redis user and group that I want to make Redis run under. But I can't figure out how (I have not found an option to make Redis switch user ID after startup). In my config file I use

unixsocket /home/redis/redis.sock
unixsocketperm 770

But, of course, the redis.sock is owned by root.

drwxr-xr-x 2 redis redis  4096 Jan 18 03:34 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 redis redis  4096 Jan 18 03:55 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 redis redis 41638 Jan 18 03:52 redis.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 redis redis 16348 Jan 18 03:55 redis.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Jan 18 03:55 redis.pid
srwxrwx--- 1 root  root      0 Jan 18 03:55 redis.sock

And the process is, too.

root      7913  0.1  0.1  38016  1976 ?        Ssl  03:55   0:00 /home/redis/bin/redis-server *:6379

Ultimately, I have a git user that is also in the redis group and thus should in the end have access to redis.sock. (This is for a manual deployment of GitLab CE).

How I can I configure the Redis server that way?

Solution

Update your /etc/init.d to use sudo during start service (line 33):

sudo -u redis $EXEC $CONF

You may need to cleanup old files (in /var/lib) or reset their permission to redis.

Answered By - Ali Nikneshan