[Burp-users] pid file when server is run as user under Ubuntu

[Marat K. <mk...@rq...>]

This is more an answer than a question, but I'd of course appreciate 
feedback.

I installed burp-server from the great ziirish repository on Ubuntu 
16.04 and changed user and group parameters in burp-server.conf to 
non-root user "burp". Then it failed to start due to not having enough 
access rights to create /var/run/burp-server.pid . Providing necessary 
access rights is easy but only works until next reboot, since in Ubuntu 
/var/run is symlinked to /run which is located on tmpfs. Changing 
pidfile location to different place like user's home directory is 
possible but ugly.

Turns out there's now a canonical way to create temporary files with 
necessary access rights in Ubuntu. Just put following contents to 
/etc/tmpfiles.d/burp-server.conf:

> #Type Path                     Mode UID GID  Age Argument
> f     /var/run/burp-server.pid -    burp burp -   -
Then it will be created automagically on reboot belonging to burp.

Hope this helps someone, possibly even package author :)


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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili