Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-04-09 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Eugene Zhukov writes: >> Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package: >> https://bugs.debian.org/780096 > > Some comments: > > 1) does dy.fi really require you to send the password in an unencrypted > HTTP request? > J

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-29 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Eugene Zhukov writes: >> I refactored the daemon so that it runs as dyfi user now with >> systemd-as-init. With SysV as init it still runs as root. It looks >> like too much hassle/effort to me since I'm not familiar with init >> scri

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-29 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eugene Zhukov writes: > I refactored the daemon so that it runs as dyfi user now with > systemd-as-init. With SysV as init it still runs as root. It looks > like too much hassle/effort to me since I'm not familiar with init > scripting. > If you think it's a must, I can implement privileges-drop f

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-29 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Eugene Zhukov writes: >>> 2) Does the service really need to run as root? >>> >> No, and this is even mentioned in upstream readme. It needs to create >> a pid file though. Any hint/pointer on how to change the packaging to >> not ru

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eugene Zhukov writes: >> 2) Does the service really need to run as root? >> > No, and this is even mentioned in upstream readme. It needs to create > a pid file though. Any hint/pointer on how to change the packaging to > not run it as root? You probably need to create a new user in the packaging

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-26 Thread Eugene Zhukov
First of, thank you very much for review! On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Eugene Zhukov writes: >> Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package: >> https://bugs.debian.org/780096 > > Some comments: > > 1) does dy.fi really require you to send the pas

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eugene Zhukov writes: > Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package: > https://bugs.debian.org/780096 Some comments: 1) does dy.fi really require you to send the password in an unencrypted HTTP request? 2) Does the service really need to run as root? 3) Doesn't db_get dyfi/pas