Is BIRD on BSD a second class citizen?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:39:16PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On jeu.  3 oct. 21:07:00 2019, Christoph wrote:
> > - security: no privilege dropping on BSD
> 
> regis ~ # ps aux | grep bird
> root     31131  4.2  3.6 607704 602720 ?       Ss   Apr05 10956:29 /usr/sbin/bird -s /run/bird.ctl -c /etc/bird.conf -P /run/bird.pid
> root     31209  0.0  0.0   7572   800 pts/3    S+   23:33   0:00 grep --colour=auto bird
> regis ~ # uname -a
> Linux regis.swordarmor.fr 4.14.83-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Feb 2 16:50:41 CET 2019 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> regis ~ #
> 
> If you mean running with another user than root, I don’t see it on Linux
> either.

Hello

You have to use -u / -g options. Debian packages do that automatically,
i don't know about others.

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