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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:37:51 +0300
From: Nikola Nikov <nikolanikov@...connect.bg>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: DHCP client
I'm going to do it and write you back, if face any troubles.
I'll also write some comments when I make some testing and research.
Thank you,
Nikola
On 4/17/2011 6:47 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nikola - this might be a challenging task for you... or someone else may
> volunteer for it.
>
> We need a DHCP client with privilege separation. Juan on our team did
> some work on this several years ago, but he never completed it and he is
> not going to. Meanwhile, OpenBSD implemented privsep in their fork of
> ISC's dhclient, and this code got into FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD, but it
> has not yet been ported to Linux (as far as I'm aware).
>
> I think that we should either port OpenBSD's dhclient to Linux or port
> the relevant ones of their changes to ISC's portable DHCP suite. In the
> former case, we'll have separate directory Owl/packages/dhclient/ in our
> native tree for the DHCP client. In the latter case, we'll have more
> patches under Owl/packages/dhcp/ and we'll enable building of the DHCP
> client in dhcp.spec (which is currently disabled because of the lack of
> privsep). Also, in the latter case we need to update to a newer
> upstream version (latest stable) of the DHCP suite first.
>
> I'd appreciate any comments.
>
> Alexander
>
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