silc-server does not drop privileges when run in foreground

Pekka Riikonen priikone at iki.fi
Wed Mar 7 08:07:33 CET 2007


: 
: After Frank Benkstein's announcement today, i started experimenting
: with running silcd under supervision with the runit suite [0], to make
: the daemon restart if it should crash under other similar
: circumstances.
: 
: I discovered that a foregrounded silc server (silcd -F) doesn't
: appropriately drop privileges, even when configured to do so in
: silcd.conf.
: 
This is fine except when debugging in enabled (-d or -D) in which case we 
don't want to drop privileges, at least I don't.

	Pekka
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