On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Paul Graydon <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
> It's not as simple (or accurate) as that. dhclient that runs on your > machine to pick up IP addresses from a dhcp server runs as root, and uses > bash directly (regardless of what yours or roots shell is). I don't know > what OS X does specifically*, *if they're running a patched version of > dhclient or similar that doesn't explicitly call root. > There are more DHCP clients than just ISC dhclient. OS X uses something completely different, as far as I can tell; most likely it's based around launchd and uses Mach ports and other OS X-specific IPC instead of relying on the environment, and data not transmitted via those probably goes via a property list. Notably, there is no dhclient executable anywhere on my 10.9 box. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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