Thursday 30 april, 2020 14:58:25 CET you wrote: > Hello, > > when run with inetd with an user != root, oidentd refuses to run: > Apr 30 14:50:54 xxx oidentd[29962]: Fatal: Failed to drop privileges > (kernel) > > ident stream tcp nowait oidentd /usr/sbin/tcpd oidentd > -i -I
Sorry for taking three years to look at this. As far as I can tell, oidentd doesn't try to drop privileges if not run as uid and/or gid 0. The only problem I can see is that oidentd tries to change its primary group to its fallback oidentd or nogroup if it's started with gid 0, even if it's not started with uid 0. The user created by the package is called oident, not oidentd. Did you create your own user and give it root as its primary group? -- Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org Debian Developer
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