Conditionally set ownership and permissions in entrypoint (#110)
* Chown files in /opt/couchdb only when necessary
Recursive modification of ownership and permissions in the entry point
has been implicated in slow container startup times. This change checks
the ownership first and only modifies it if necessary. It is modelled
after similar changes recently applied to a number of other projects
e.g. docker-library/redis#166.
* Chmod data files only if necessary
Previously we had been doing a blanket recursive chmod to 770 on
everything in the datadir. This had a few problems:
- The files themselves need not have the executable bit set
- CouchDB itself creates directories and files with 755/644
- Executing lots of chmod operations caused startup delays
This patch makes the execution of chmod conditional, and works to set
the permissions to what they would normally be when CouchDB creates the
the files and directories.
* Chmod config files only if necessary
This patch also drops the target permissions from 775/664 to 755/644,
as the latter permissions are the ones set by the CouchDB installation
itself.
diff --git a/2.2.0/docker-entrypoint.sh b/2.2.0/docker-entrypoint.sh
index 4ba69b4..7fdb04b 100755
--- a/2.2.0/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/2.2.0/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -25,13 +25,28 @@
fi
if [ "$1" = '/opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb' ]; then
- # we need to set the permissions here because docker mounts volumes as root
- chown -fR couchdb:couchdb /opt/couchdb || true
+ # Check that we own everything in /opt/couchdb and fix if necessary. We also
+ # add the `-f` flag in all the following invocations because there may be
+ # cases where some of these ownership and permissions issues are non-fatal
+ # (e.g. a config file owned by root with o+r is actually fine), and we don't
+ # to be too aggressive about crashing here ...
+ find /opt/couchdb \! \( -user couchdb -group couchdb \) -exec chown -f couchdb:couchdb '{}' +
- chmod -fR 0770 /opt/couchdb/data || true
+ # Ensure that data files have the correct permissions. We were previously
+ # preventing any access to these files outside of couchdb:couchdb, but it
+ # turns out that CouchDB itself does not set such restrictive permissions
+ # when it creates the files. The approach taken here ensures that the
+ # contents of the datadir have the same permissions as they had when they
+ # were initially created. This should minimize any startup delay.
+ find /opt/couchdb/data -type d ! -perm 0755 -exec chmod -f 0755 '{}' +
+ find /opt/couchdb/data -type f ! -perm 0644 -exec chmod -f 0644 '{}' +
- find /opt/couchdb/etc -name \*.ini -exec chmod -f 664 {} \;
- chmod -f 775 /opt/couchdb/etc/*.d || true
+ # Do the same thing for configuration files and directories. Technically
+ # CouchDB only needs read access to the configuration files as all online
+ # changes will be applied to the "docker.ini" file below, but we set 644
+ # for the sake of consistency.
+ find /opt/couchdb/etc -type d ! -perm 0755 -exec chmod -f 0755 '{}' +
+ find /opt/couchdb/etc -type f ! -perm 0644 -exec chmod -f 0644 '{}' +
if [ ! -z "$NODENAME" ] && ! grep "couchdb@" /opt/couchdb/etc/vm.args; then
echo "-name couchdb@$NODENAME" >> /opt/couchdb/etc/vm.args
diff --git a/dev/docker-entrypoint.sh b/dev/docker-entrypoint.sh
index 4ba69b4..7fdb04b 100755
--- a/dev/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/dev/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -25,13 +25,28 @@
fi
if [ "$1" = '/opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb' ]; then
- # we need to set the permissions here because docker mounts volumes as root
- chown -fR couchdb:couchdb /opt/couchdb || true
+ # Check that we own everything in /opt/couchdb and fix if necessary. We also
+ # add the `-f` flag in all the following invocations because there may be
+ # cases where some of these ownership and permissions issues are non-fatal
+ # (e.g. a config file owned by root with o+r is actually fine), and we don't
+ # to be too aggressive about crashing here ...
+ find /opt/couchdb \! \( -user couchdb -group couchdb \) -exec chown -f couchdb:couchdb '{}' +
- chmod -fR 0770 /opt/couchdb/data || true
+ # Ensure that data files have the correct permissions. We were previously
+ # preventing any access to these files outside of couchdb:couchdb, but it
+ # turns out that CouchDB itself does not set such restrictive permissions
+ # when it creates the files. The approach taken here ensures that the
+ # contents of the datadir have the same permissions as they had when they
+ # were initially created. This should minimize any startup delay.
+ find /opt/couchdb/data -type d ! -perm 0755 -exec chmod -f 0755 '{}' +
+ find /opt/couchdb/data -type f ! -perm 0644 -exec chmod -f 0644 '{}' +
- find /opt/couchdb/etc -name \*.ini -exec chmod -f 664 {} \;
- chmod -f 775 /opt/couchdb/etc/*.d || true
+ # Do the same thing for configuration files and directories. Technically
+ # CouchDB only needs read access to the configuration files as all online
+ # changes will be applied to the "docker.ini" file below, but we set 644
+ # for the sake of consistency.
+ find /opt/couchdb/etc -type d ! -perm 0755 -exec chmod -f 0755 '{}' +
+ find /opt/couchdb/etc -type f ! -perm 0644 -exec chmod -f 0644 '{}' +
if [ ! -z "$NODENAME" ] && ! grep "couchdb@" /opt/couchdb/etc/vm.args; then
echo "-name couchdb@$NODENAME" >> /opt/couchdb/etc/vm.args
