On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:41:43PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:20:30PM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 08/11/10 06:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > >I received some additional feedback from David, which I have
> > >incorporated into a new webrev.  It's available here:
> > >
> > >   http://cr.opensolaris.org/~johansen/webrev-16784-2/
> > >
> > >Thanks to all for the speedy review!
> >
> > So what's the pkg5srv user/group for again?  Where do we use that?
>
> This is used by the mdns depot server.  It runs with the privilige of a
> normal user, instead of becoming root and dropping its privs.
>

any reason your not just using the existing daemon/daemon uid/gid?

also, it seems like dropping privs would be good regardless on uid.
presumably you don't need privs to to fork/exec/access proc/etc.
perhaps an rfe?

ed
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