From: Mark Ferlatte (ferlatte@cryptio.net)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 19:30:23 CEST
Is there any interest in patches to syslogd/klogd that allow them to run as a
non-root user?
I have a set of patches that use seteuid() to drop/regain root privs on HUP
(so that create_unix_socket() and create_inet_socket() work).
I've also been kicking around the idea of just using fork() + setuid() to have
a parent root syslogd and a child non-root that does all of the work. This
seems safer than using seteuid, but is maybe too invasive.
M
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