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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:28:49 +0000
From:      "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org>
To:        "Erik Van Benschoten" <evanben@earthlink.net>
Cc:        Erik Van Benschoten <evanben@valleycomnet.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISC DHCP Server port UID/GID question
Message-ID:  <a01628140801180728l4528c48byb214305d1d079e4e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4790C318.2030303@earthlink.net>
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On Jan 18, 2008 3:17 PM, Erik Van Benschoten <evanben@earthlink.net> wrote:
>   I noticed that, but I believe that that is a privilege separation
> account that is used with the OpenBSD-version of the dhclient. Also, as
> I pointed out, if this is usable, then why isn't the isc-dhcp-server
> port using it instead of allocating a UID/GID for itself during the install?

There's no good reason to allocate UID/GID dynamically IMHO. This
issue should be discussed with the current maintainer.

In the meantime, you can set dhcpd_with(user|group) to "_dhcp" in
/etc/rc.conf to use the base _dhcp user/group.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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