dhcpcd-discuss

Privilege separation

lists+dhcpcd

Thu Jun 21 20:36:29 2018

Hello everyone, and thanks for your work on dhcpcd.  I've been using it
on OpenBSD, and it works great with Comcast FWIW.

Is there any work being done to secure the daemon with privilege
separation, or at least not have it run as root (this last one probably
requires it due to routes being built/destroyed on most OS).  Other
practices like chroot() might be nice, but I think not having the net
process running as the superuser is probably the best place to start.

I might be able to take a stab at it, but didn't know if work was
already underway.

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