Bug 1326623 - dnsdist should not be run as root
Summary: dnsdist should not be run as root
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnsdist
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Sander Hoentjen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-13 08:40 UTC by Pieter Lexis
Modified: 2016-04-15 15:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-04-15 15:34:07 UTC
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Description Pieter Lexis 2016-04-13 08:40:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
In it's current packaged form, dnsdist is run as root and does not drop privileges. Upstream, we have a PR that will make the packages provided by PowerDNS drop privileges to the 'dnsdist' user and group (https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/3700). It is recommended that Fedora and EPEL do the same.
Comment 1 Sander Hoentjen 2016-04-13 20:49:08 UTC 
Thanks for reminding me. You are definitely right, it is something we should really do. I won't get around to it this week I am afraid.

something to think about maybe is to add support for specifying the user/group in configure. make would then add -u and -g to dnsdistdist/dnsdist.service.in

This way we can all use the same upstream dnsdist.service
Comment 2 Ruben Kerkhof 2016-04-15 15:34:07 UTC 
I took a stab at this. I agree with Sander that it would be nice to be able to specify the user/group from ./configure in the future.
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