From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:05:47 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/bird: add a unprivileged user In-Reply-To: References: <20190205105630.17008-1-adrien@gallouet.fr> <20190317174946.28ee07a5@windsurf> Message-ID: <20190318110547.177223b9@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Adrien, Thanks for the feedback. On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:56:16 +0100 > I use BIRD with s6 on production and I didn't take the time > to write a correct start-stop-daemon script for it yet. In all cases, > BIRD only needs root privileges at startup and he can switch > to a less privileged one when started with -u USER -g GROUP. > > If your prefer to wait, I'll resubmit a patch with the start-stop-daemon > script later. Yes, indeed, I think it makes more sense to have the new user created together with an init script that actually uses it. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com