Unix domain socket doesn't have the right file permission

[Anricx]

Bug report

System info: Ubuntu 16.04

Steps to reproduce:

1. install influxdb by

curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
source /etc/lsb-release
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

2. edit /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf enable http service over unix domain socket

3. restart influxdb

influxdb default run with user influxdb and create unix domain socket influxdb.sock without write permission, finally it will cause nginx could connect this socket!

so i have 2 chooses:

1. custom influxdb to run with root or my nginx user group.
2. or execute chmod a+x influxdb.sock evenytime influxdb restart.

[jsternberg]

Can you show me the output of ls -l /var/run/influxdb.sock?

[jsternberg]

Ok, I think I misunderstood this question. The problem is that the unix socket created by InfluxDB is 0755 and that doesn't allow writes or queries from those outside of the influxdb group when attempting to use nginx as a query.

I'm going to switch this to a feature request since this isn't a bug in the packaging or the software as I thought it was. But, it might be nice to be able to call the equivalent of chmod and chown on the socket that is created automatically which could probably be added as an extra configuration option.