Allow sensible to run as user

[newhinton]

Currently the settingsfile is hardcoded to be in /etc.

sensible/settings/settings.go

Line 56 in efad618

var settingsFile string = "/etc/sensible/settings.yaml"

this forces this app to be run as root. With small changes, it can be run from the user context:

//settings/settings.go
var settingsFolder string =  os.Getenv("HOME")+"/.config/sensible/"
var settingsFile string = settingsFolder + "settings.yaml"
var logFile string = settingsFolder + "logs.txt"
...


//utility/fileutil.go
// CreateFolder Create a folder and check if creation was successful
func CreateFolder(path string) {
        err := os.MkdirAll(path, os.ModePerm)
...

This will need to be adjusted so that it autodetects the context, and changes back to the original path's when run as root.

[TheTinkerDad]

This is a great idea, thank you! I will definitely add it into the next release!

[TheTinkerDad]

This was quite easy to implement indeed - also, made it so that the setup/reset CLI parameter (-r, added in v0.2.0) also considers the current user:

$ cd ~
$ ./sensible -r
time=2023-06-19T23:47:25Z level=info msg=Setting up defaults...
time=2023-06-19T23:47:25Z level=info msg=Creating default folders...
time=2023-06-19T23:47:25Z level=info msg=Successfully created /home/thetinkerdad/.sensible/scripts!
time=2023-06-19T23:47:25Z level=info msg=Successfully created /home/thetinkerdad/.sensible/log!
time=2023-06-19T23:47:25Z level=info msg=Successfully written default config file as /home/thetinkerdad/.sensible/settings.yaml!
$ ls -la .sensible
total 20
drwx------ 4 thetinkerdad thetinkerdad 4096 Jun 19 23:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 thetinkerdad thetinkerdad 4096 Jun 19 23:47 ..
drwx------ 2 thetinkerdad thetinkerdad 4096 Jun 19 23:47 log
drwx------ 2 thetinkerdad thetinkerdad 4096 Jun 19 23:47 scripts
-rw------- 1 thetinkerdad thetinkerdad 1885 Jun 19 23:47 settings.yaml

Since the settings file can contain MQTT username and password, made its permissions much stricter by default.