Stash as dedicated user

Kota Sreenivasa Shravana Kumar April 13, 2014

In our Linux production environment, Stash is running as user root. However, Atlassian recommends that, for production or enterprise environment, stash should be run from a dedicated user account stash.

Just wanted to check with the Atlassian experts, if the following procedure is correct to implement the above recommended method. Let me know, if there are any issues. if there is any Atlassian link where this exact procedure including commands described would also be useful.

1. Stop Stash

2. create stash user as follows

useradd stash

3. chown -R stash:stash <stash installation directory>

4. chown -R stash:stash <stash home directory>

5. Start Stash

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Michael Heemskerk
Atlassian Team
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April 16, 2014

As long as in step 5 you actually start Stash as the stash user, that should work.

Kota Sreenivasa Shravana Kumar April 16, 2014

Thanks for the quick response. Agreed that step 5 should run as stash user. Another question. After implementing the above said procedure, we got to validate the same to make sure that three is no impact to the users. What kind of testing do you suggest ? something like git clone or git push or anything else ? Please advise.

Michael Heemskerk
Atlassian Team
Atlassian Team members are employees working across the company in a wide variety of roles.
April 16, 2014

I'd try to:

  • clone an existing repository
  • push to an existing repository
  • create a new repository in Stash
  • clone the repository, make some changes and push the commits back
  • clone the repository again
  • delete the repository

That would test read, write and directory creation permissions.

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