Re: OpenBSD's dhclient

["Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 12/3/06, Justin C. Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> On Sat, December 2, 2006 7:28 pm, Peter Avalos wrote:
> > Here's a shar of some work on bringing in OpenBSD's dhclient.  Please
> > test it and give me any thoughts.  Run the archive from your src/
> > directory.
> >
> > http://www.theshell.com/~pavalos/wip/dhclient.shar
>
> Out of curiosity: what's the advantages of this dhclient over the one we
> already have?


Well, privilege separation/revocation... that means that dhclient
doesn't run has root.. (I think part of it runs chrooted with
dedicated user id..)
--
Miguel Sousa Filipe