On 10/8/11 11:17 AM, Adam Gensler wrote: > All, > > This is my first try at a patch and also my first attempt at parsing > /etc/config files in OpenWRT. If I've goofed something up please let me know. > The purpose of this change is to allow users to config radvd to run in > unprivileged mode. Per the radvd man page: > > radvd(8) - Linux man page > http://linux.die.net/man/8/radvd > > -u username, --username username > If specified, drops root privileges and changes user ID to username and group > ID to the primary group of username. This is recommended for security > reasons. You might also need to use -p to point to a file in a username > -writable directory (e.g. /var/run/radvd/radvd.pid). > > This patch can parse three new fields in /etc/config/radvd, under "config > radvd", specifically: > option secure_mode 1 > option username 'nobody' > option group 'nogroup' > > I think the above is fairly self explanatory. When run with the "-u" option, > radvd spawns two processes, one with root privileges for interface > configuration purposes and another, unprivileged process, for everything else. > > With none of these options configured radvd will operate as it always has. > > Any suggestions and / or input would be appreciated. As I said, this is my > first crack at working with OpenWRT so there's a possibility I did something > incorrect. > > Thanks in advance, > Adam
Also, I don't think it's the convention to use UPPERCASE variable names. -Philip _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
