Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-04-09 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package: https://bugs.debian.org/780096 Some comments: 1) does dy.fi really require you to send the password in an

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-29 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: I refactored the daemon so that it runs as dyfi user now with systemd-as-init. With SysV as init it still runs as root. It looks like too much hassle/effort to me since I'm not familiar with init scripting. If you think it's a must, I can implement

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-29 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: I refactored the daemon so that it runs as dyfi user now with systemd-as-init. With SysV as init it still runs as root. It looks like too much hassle/effort to me since

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-29 Thread Eugene Zhukov
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: 2) Does the service really need to run as root? No, and this is even mentioned in upstream readme. It needs to create a pid file though. Any hint/pointer on how to

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: 2) Does the service really need to run as root? No, and this is even mentioned in upstream readme. It needs to create a pid file though. Any hint/pointer on how to change the packaging to not run it as root? You probably need to create a new user in

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-26 Thread Eugene Zhukov
First of, thank you very much for review! On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package: https://bugs.debian.org/780096 Some comments: 1) does dy.fi

Bug#779708: Client for updating dynamic hostname mappings for dy.fi

2015-03-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com writes: Would anyone be interested in sponsoring its client package: https://bugs.debian.org/780096 Some comments: 1) does dy.fi really require you to send the password in an unencrypted HTTP request? 2) Does the service really need to run as root? 3)