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Re: dhcpcd privilege separation user



On Thu, 23 Jan 2020, reed%reedmedia.net@localhost wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jan 2020, Roy Marples wrote:

dhcpcd-9 is almost ready for release and the big feature for it is
privilege separation. The question is which system user should it use
on NetBSD? Other BSD's have the _dhcp user - which shares DHCP serving
on OpenBSD at least.

Is this to generic and we should have a _dhcpcd user or is _dhcp
satisfactory?

Separate dedicated user.

+1


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