Re: dhcpcd privilege separation user

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 04:38:11PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:36:29PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > Hi List!
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> I don't think it's a great idea to share the user between the purposes, even
> though few systems will simultaneously be DHCP server and client.

Actually, it's not that rare. dhcpcd can be used for IPv6 PD on the
upstream link and dhcpd on the internal interfaces.

Joerg