From owner-freebsd-isdn Mon Jan 4 23:18:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10021 for freebsd-isdn-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:18:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from linteuto.teuto.de (linteuto.teuto.de [194.77.23.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10013 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:18:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@rumolt.teuto.de) Received: from rumolt.teuto.de (root@rumolt.teuto.de [212.8.203.81]) by linteuto.teuto.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03204; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:07:31 +0100 Received: (from martin@localhost) by rumolt.teuto.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA01907; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:06:22 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Husemann Message-Id: <199901050706.IAA01907@rumolt.teuto.de> Subject: Re: regexp program To: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:06:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dirk Meyer" at Jan 5, 99 04:53:19 am Organization: Crusaders Catering Services Inc. ;-) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The regexp program (I dont use any at this time), may want to signal > the isdnd/route/natd new information. If this is the case, > It can't run as nobody. Same goes for the ip-up/ip-down scripts, which are run by the same internal mechanism in isdnd. They are useless if not run as root. Probably the easiest one-size-fits-all solution is to specify the user a script should be running as in isdnd.rc? > first, is there any reason i4b must runs as root, instead as an > dedicated user? It might be possible, all i4b devices could be > owned by this users. It needs privileges to become root to run the scripts ;-) It may run as any other user most of the time. Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message