Re: Privilege dropping for rtadvd

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 03/07/2013 17:30, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> No objection, one comment: as you are adding the _rtadvd user within
> the patch, I would rather end the getpwnam test in fatal() rather 
> than
> keeping "the old way" and jump to "setsig".
>
> Most privsep daemons log the missing user and exit right after.

I'm just thinking about upgraders who fail to upgrade passwd/group and 
mtree, reboot and their IPv6 only network fails to come up.
Anyone else with experience of upgrading stuff like this have any 
opinion?

Roy