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Re: OpenBSD's dhclient


From: "Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:38:25 +0000

Hi,

On 12/3/06, Justin C. Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:
On Sat, December 2, 2006 7:28 pm, Peter Avalos wrote:
> Here's a shar of some work on bringing in OpenBSD's dhclient.  Please
> test it and give me any thoughts.  Run the archive from your src/
> directory.
>
> http://www.theshell.com/~pavalos/wip/dhclient.shar

Out of curiosity: what's the advantages of this dhclient over the one we
already have?




Well, privilege separation/revocation... that means that dhclient
doesn't run has root.. (I think part of it runs chrooted with
dedicated user id..)
--
Miguel Sousa Filipe



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