owl-users - Re: dhcp client

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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:41:49 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: dhcp client

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:35:37AM +0100, Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
> I've just installed Owl on one of my computers. My ISP requires my to use
> DHCP and PPPOE. Which DHCP client would be best suited to run with owl ?

In native/Owl/packages/dhcp/dhcp.spec, you can set BUILD_DHCP_CLIENT to 1.
Then "make".

This is disabled by default and not officially supported because this TODO
item has not been completed (in fact, we haven't even started at it):

[PRIORITY: low]
[ASSIGNED: schmidt@, solar@]
The DHCP client should be modified to run as a dedicated pseudo-user
and in a chroot jail.  This requires privilege separation within the
client (not easy).

> PS. Solar: it took me about a year, but I finally installed owl, so your
> dutch mirror is not that far from being online.

Good.

Meanwhile, the German and Russian ones should be fast enough for most
of Europe.

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Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
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