dhcpcd-discuss

On 1/21/21 2:09 PM, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 21/01/2021 12:37, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > > > If it only disabling privsep, I'm totally fine with that, as I never 
> > > > really saw the upsides compared to the added complexity for a 
> > > > network daemaon mainly performing privileged operations.
> > >
> > > It's not quite that simple :)
> > >
> > > You need dhcpcd-9.3.3 or better and the patch here:
> > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/668 
> > >
> > >
> > > Hopefully merged upstream soon so NetworkManager can enjoy dhcpcd-9.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the info. So, is this for privsep setup only, or for 
> > dhcpcd-9 in general? I decided I don't need privsep, is this still 
> > optional in dhcpcd-9?
>
> dhcpcd-9 in general.
> Basically older versions always modified the host in some way or still 
> backgrounded the master processs with the -B option.
> dhcpcd-9.3.3 changes that and added the --noconfigure option which is 
> why it's now tied to a specific minimum version which makes upstream 
> NetworkManager very happy.

Cool. I'd like to try the patch. I downloaded the patch at

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/ee629f00e8f5d2d9fe2e477ac69ea712f884044d.patch

but it fails to apply on NetworkManager-1.28.0. Is there a version of 
the patch for NetworkManager-1.28.0?


Bye
Tim