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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/bird: add a unprivileged user
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:05:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190318110547.177223b9@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFtSRGCunAxWP2VizuD_yY8zzqnOqksuzKz-F=PiFHv+JdOb7A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Adrien,

Thanks for the feedback.

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:56:16 +0100

> I use BIRD with s6 on production and I didn't take the time
> to write a correct start-stop-daemon script for it yet. In all cases,
> BIRD only needs root privileges at startup and he can switch
> to a less privileged one when started with -u USER -g GROUP.
> 
> If your prefer to wait, I'll resubmit a patch with the start-stop-daemon
> script later.

Yes, indeed, I think it makes more sense to have the new user created
together with an init script that actually uses it.

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-18 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-05 10:56 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/bird: add a unprivileged user Adrien Gallouët
2019-03-17 16:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-03-17 19:56   ` Adrien Gallouët
2019-03-18 10:05     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2019-06-23 16:10       ` Thomas Petazzoni

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