Auto create /tmp/parsec with correct permissions on startup

[sbailey-arm]

Would it be feasible to have Parsec create the /tmp/parsec directory when it starts, if it doesn't already exist?

If the user that Parsec runs as is already part of parsec-clients, then I think it should just need to execute:

mkdir /tmp/parsec
chown :parsec-clients /tmp/parsec
chmod 750 /tmp/parsec

[hug-dev]

I agree with the idea, that would facilitate deployments as well.

chown :parsec-clients /tmp/parsec

Is it required that the current user is part of the parsec-clients group to execute that?

I can add more, out of my head:

• if the folder exists, we could make the same checks as the client is doing
• we could check that the current user is parsec
• we could check that the parsec-clients group exists
• we should have all of those checks activated by default, but be able to disable them with a feature, like in the client (and under testing)

That way, the only action needed by the admin would be to create the parsec-clients group.

[ionut-arm]

we should have all of those checks activated by default, but be able to disable them with a feature, like in the client (and under testing)

we should also have tests where we have it active and we run parsec from different users in a container :)

[hug-dev]

Done by #205