Re: dhcpd runs as root

["Iain M. Conochie" <iain@thargoid.co.uk>]

Does the daemon allow dropping privileges? If not, then it will bot be able to bind to a port below 1024. 

This option does not seem to be available in dhcpd

Cheers

Iain

Andrew Wood <andrew@perpetualmotion.co.uk> wrote:

On 28/08/13 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Reading through the bug report, it looks like upstream didn't accept 
it.  Debian stays as close as possible to upstream, for good reason.
I agree its good to keep things as close as possible to upstream, but 
unless upstream can present some compelling argument for why they've 
chosen to run it as root, surely this would be a good case to deviate? 
Running a network daemon as root is poor security practice and just 
plain poor design.

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