[lxc-devel] lxc-dnsmasq user

S.Çağlar Onur caglar at 10ur.org
Thu Oct 2 21:03:56 UTC 2014


On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I was just wondering what the reason was for choosing to create a
> lxc-dnsmasq user? If I read the dnsmasq man-page right, it will
> normally drop privileges and switch to user 'nobody', so was there some
> reason 'nobody' was a problem?
>
> Just asking as it would be simpler if lxc didn't have to create/delete
> the additional lxc-dnsmasq user in the distro packaging. Thanks.

I'm also wondering the same as I was about to re-submit this [1] as it
looks like it got dropped with the new lxc.net

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[1] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/1c1bb85ad2b6dd2f67244da1f2367c70e83aa343#diff-7b6f00e51a519297766db3da4e1f02aeL62
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