Running a fresh node launchpad as root fails to run nodes; permission denied

[harismuzaffer]

When a newly installed launchpad is run as root, it defaults to storage_mountpoint as None. When get_launchpad_nodes_data_dir_path gets called, we are passing get_default_mount_point to it which returns / on linux and the fn get_launchpad_nodes_data_dir_path returns /root/.local/share as the base dir.

The directory /root/.local/share is not accessible by the user ant(the user against which antnode service is run). This results in permission denied in /var/log/syslog, this error is not seen in launchpad logs anywhere

I was wondering, how would node launchpad work with root earlier?

I am trying to fix this through a PR, but i have few basic questions:

• i found references to /var/antctl/services - should this be the default data dir for nodes in the absence of a custom path?
• what would be its equivalent on windows platform?