From 234f55f3c4295f08399b725cda8a8aa4b559f1f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:32:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Docker: Change permissions for data dir before attempting to
write to it (#6389)
---
changelog.d/6389.bugfix | 1 +
docker/start.py | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 changelog.d/6389.bugfix
diff --git a/changelog.d/6389.bugfix b/changelog.d/6389.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c553622b02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/6389.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix permission denied error when trying to generate a config file with the docker image.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/start.py b/docker/start.py
index 6e1cb807a1..97fd247f8f 100755
--- a/docker/start.py
+++ b/docker/start.py
@@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
# log("running %s" % (args, ))
if ownership is not None:
- args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
- os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
-
# make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir.
subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir])
+
+ args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
+ os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
else:
os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
--
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