Re: dhcpcd privilege separation user

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

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.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls%panix.com@localhost
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