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Task #7162

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Submit a patch for the alpine bird2 package to run as user bird

Added by Nico Schottelius about 5 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Target version:
-
Start date:
09/20/2019
Due date:
09/24/2019
% Done:

0%

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Description

  • Currently bird runs as root unecessarily in alpine.
  • Ensure a user bird (+group?) exists
  • Ensure /etc/bird.conf is readable by the user bird
Actions #1

Updated by ll nu about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Seen
Actions #2

Updated by ll nu almost 5 years ago

need to verify if its still not implemented

Actions #3

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

  • Assignee changed from ll nu to Timothée Floure
Actions #4

Updated by Timothée Floure over 4 years ago

ll nu wrote:

need to verify if its still not implemented

It is not (https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/master/testing/bird/bird.initd), but totally doable and already done by Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bird/blob/master/f/bird.service

Actions #5

Updated by Timothée Floure over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Seen to In Progress
Actions #6

Updated by Timothée Floure over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Waiting

I just added a gentle reminder / bump on the merge request. Waiting on alpine right now.

Actions #7

Updated by Timothée Floure almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Waiting to Closed
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