Hi,

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:08:22PM +0800, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> Generally speaking I believe that openvpn, as a VPN and partly routing
> daemon, should be allowed to run with CAP_NET_ADMIN set as it enables
> more features (tunnel reconfiguration to start with).

If we go there, we might consider dropping all non-default capabilities
before running external programs (--up, --client-connect, ...)


This patch is a bit "gallopping ahead", though - it needs a somewhat
more solid agreement on our privilege model before modifying systemd
unit files...

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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