Re: [Openvpn-devel] Daemon as non-root, high priority

2004-02-05 Thread James Yonan
Ian Pilcher said: > I would like to put together a patch that will allow the openvpn daemon > to run with elevated priority as a non-root user. This currently > doesn't work, because the daemon changes its UID before it renices > itself. > > Questions: > >* Are there any "philosophical" ob

[Openvpn-devel] Daemon as non-root, high priority

2004-02-05 Thread Ian Pilcher
I would like to put together a patch that will allow the openvpn daemon to run with elevated priority as a non-root user. This currently doesn't work, because the daemon changes its UID before it renices itself. Questions: * Are there any "philosophical" objections to this that would prevent