using rc.subr only by root restriction

Anthony Pankov ap00 at mail.ru
Sat Jul 1 08:25:30 UTC 2017


> I don't like that this starts id -u many times during startup.
I  also think that proposed patch is far away from beautiful solution.
My  second  suggestion was to not apply login class until it explicity
specified but this is also not a clear way.

> Perhaps
> you can use the id invocation in the code block that unsets $_user if
> running as that user.

Sorry, I didn't catch.

> By the way, that code block seems to indicate that it was definitely
> supposed to work to use rc.subr without root privileges. The concern
> about resource limits and other context not matching normal boot is
> valid, though.



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 Anthony                          mailto:ap00 at mail.ru



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