Does the daemon allow dropping privileges? If not, then it will bot be able to bind to a port below 1024.
This option does not seem to be available in dhcpd Cheers Iain Andrew Wood <and...@perpetualmotion.co.uk> wrote: >On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> Reading through the bug report, it looks like upstream didn't accept >> it. Debian stays as close as possible to upstream, for good reason. >I agree its good to keep things as close as possible to upstream, but >unless upstream can present some compelling argument for why they've >chosen to run it as root, surely this would be a good case to deviate? >Running a network daemon as root is poor security practice and just >plain poor design. > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >listmas...@lists.debian.org >Archive: http://lists.debian.org/521f3d77.80...@perpetualmotion.co.uk -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
