[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/bird: add a unprivileged user

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sun Mar 17 16:49:46 UTC 2019


Hello Adrien,

On Tue,  5 Feb 2019 10:56:31 +0000
Adrien Gallouët <adrien at gallouet.fr> wrote:

> This commit add a specific unprivileged user for BIRD
> to avoid full root privileges while running.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët <adrien at gallouet.fr>

Could you give a few more details on how/where this new user gets
used ? Your patch only creates it, but it doesn't tweak any init script
or configuration file that would tell the daemon to be started using
this unprivileged user.

Could you provide a bit more details ?

Thanks!

Thomas
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