dhcpcd-discuss

On 10/04/2020 10:23, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 10/04/2020 01:50, Ben Woods wrote:
> >  3. Given the _dhcp user on FreeBSD has its home directory set to /var/empty,
> >     what is required to correctly setup chroot?
>
> It needs to be elsewhere because more that _dhcp uses /var/emtpy - and it's 
> silly to fill something called empty with files!
> So either change it or create a new user.
>
> I'm starting to thing that by default, the dhcpcd package should use _dhcpcd by 
> default and create that user rather than changing the home directory of _dhcp.
> That's why I've not updated pkgsrc for dhcpcd-9 yet.
> But after this discussion I think dropping the auto detection of _dhcp is the 
> right thing to do as a *package*.
>
> As such I've made this commit:
> https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=36c47a8df0951236a7842bbf8241e2932357ef61 
>
>
> cc'ing Stuart as he maintains the OpenBSD port and I'd like both your thoughts 
> on this.

I've made some more changes to the configure script - it will detect users in 
this order: _dhcpcd _dhcp dhcpcd. If any has a home directory not /var/empty 
then dhcpcd will use that user by default.
If no such user is found then dhcpcd will default to the dhcpcd user (no leading 
underscore).

This should allow the dhcpcd package to add the dhcpcd user with a working home 
directory without the need to interfere with system users.

Note this is just the default... packagers can specify whatever user they wish 
to use still by the --privsepuser=whatever

Roy