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 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
