Install a package for just one CageFS user?

[jerrac]

I have a tool I'd like to install for just one CageFS user. Is that possible?

yum and rpm are not part of the CageFS skeleton, so I can't use those tools, and I don't want to add them to the skeleton... Is there any other, simple, means to install an .rpm for a single user?

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hello @jerrac

Because RPM's are system-wide packages this wouldn't be possible. Any RPM installed would be available for use by any user. There might be another solution though can you explain what RPM/what you're trying to do exactly?

 

[jerrac]

The CentOS 7 64bit version of wkhtmltopdf

I did look into just extracting the files and uploading them to the users directory, but I couldn't quite figure out where to put the binaries so they'd be found by any of the users scripts, or the header files so they'd be found by the binaries.

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hi @jerrac

You might be able to do this by adding the RPM and managing the CageFS template? Documentation on FileSystem Templates with cagefs can be found here: File System Templates

 

[jerrac]

Hi @jerrac

You might be able to do this by adding the RPM and managing the CageFS template? Documentation on FileSystem Templates with cagefs can be found here: File System Templates

Yes, that'd be how I'd add it for all CageFS users. I was hoping to do it for just one.

# yum install wkhtmltox
# cagefsctl --addrpm wkhtmltox
​

Would add the tool to all cagefs users as soon as I told cagefs to update all of the users skeletons again.

(At least I think that's how it'd work. Been a while since I've need to add an rpm to the skeleton.)

Anyway, from the sounds of things, that's the only option I have right now. Oh well.

 

[cPanelLauren]

My assumption was that based on reading the documentation you could upload a separate template for that customer:

CageFS creates a filesystem template in /usr/share/cagefs-skeleton directory. CageFS template will be mounted for each customer. The template is created by running:

But it does indeed look like that is a generic template for all cusotmers. You might check with CloudLinux specifically for information on whether or not it's possible to make the customization you are wanting.