Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-30 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/30/2013 12:04 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:25:31AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: The problem with changing upstream code is it is not a one-shot deal. Changes must be investigated and applied every time a new version comes out, which means someone has to keep track o

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:25:31AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > The problem with changing upstream code is it is not a one-shot > deal. Changes must be investigated and applied every time a new > version comes out, which means someone has to keep track of the > changes which were done, and see

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Iain M. Conochie
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 wrote: >On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >> Reading through the bug report, it looks like upstream di

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/29/2013 8:24 AM, Andrew Wood 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 unles

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-29 Thread Andrew Wood
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 ar

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:13:43PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 8/27/2013 5:26 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > >Why does dhcpd (installed from isc-dhcp-server package in WHeezy) run as > >root not a less privileged user? > > > >The only reference to this subject I can find is this bug report first > >

Re: dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-27 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/27/2013 5:26 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Why does dhcpd (installed from isc-dhcp-server package in WHeezy) run as root not a less privileged user? The only reference to this subject I can find is this bug report first filed in 2005 and seemingly still not fixed... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

dhcpd runs as root

2013-08-27 Thread Andrew Wood
Why does dhcpd (installed from isc-dhcp-server package in WHeezy) run as root not a less privileged user? The only reference to this subject I can find is this bug report first filed in 2005 and seemingly still not fixed... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308832 Surely theres