On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 09:56 +0200, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi all > > I'm about to give the new dhcpcd 9.0.0 a go, which has quite an > important change: it does privilege separation now. > > This means that an unprivileged user has to be created and that user > needs to have access to /var/lib/dhcpcd > > I thought of doing something similar to openssh: > > install -v -m700 -d /var/lib/dhcpcd > > > groupadd -g 50 dhcpcd && > useradd -c 'dhcpcd PrivSep' \ > -d /var/lib/dhcpcd \ > -g dhcpcd \ > -s /bin/false \ > -u 50 dhcpcd > > chown dhcpcd:dhcpcd /var/lib/dhcpcd > > > > Now, the question is: what uid and gid shall I use? 50 as above is > taken > by openssh, so what number shall we reserve for dhcpcd? > > > > Bye > Tim
First, you may try to look at what other distros do for the uid/gid, but whatever your choice, have a look at the "About System Users and Groups" page, and add the id's there (after verifying it does not clash, I guess you'd thought of that :). Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
