Control: owner 875874 dkg@fifthhorseman.net
Control: retitle 875874 ITP: resolvconf-admin
On Fri 2017-09-15 12:46:39 +0000, ju xor wrote:
> * Package name : resolvconf-admin
> Version : 0.1.0
> Upstream Author : Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
> * URL : https://github.com/dkg/resolvconf-admin
> * License : MIT
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : setuid helper program for setting up the local DNS
>
> This program deals with setting the local DNS information, which needs to be done by root on some systems. For example, it should allow you to run a DHCP client without giving that DHCP client full superuser privileges.
>
> If /sbin/resolvconf is present, it is invoked as root with the recommended data. If it is not present, then /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten with a simple file.
>
>
> This software is useful for dhcpcanon, to setup DNS information obtained from
> DHCP servers without the need to be run as root and without depending on systemd-resolved.
I'm willing to package this as a useful utility for dhcpcanon and for
any other equivalent daemon that wants to run with minimal privileges on
systems without systemd.
However, i think systemd-resolved is a better solution for this, so
people who have systemd-resolved available to them should use it
instead.
I'll try to do an upload to NEW soon.
--dkg
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