On 2009/05/31 20:44, patrick keshishian wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm not sure if ports@ is the right list for these questions, > but I think it is a good place to start. > > I have a PPTP VPN client that I'm trying to clean up for release. > Part of my TODO list before release have to do with user-id to > use and syslog. > > Currently the client switches to _ppp user after it is done > with root privilege and chroot(2)-s to /var/empty. Is this > acceptable? Is there another user-id that is preferred?
You need to add a new unique user-id for the port (see ports/infrastructure/db/user.list) and create it in PLIST with @newuser/@newgroup. /var/empty is fine. > Also, ATM every log message is going to stderr/stdout. I want > to send certain messages to syslog, but I'm not sure which > facility is appropriate to use: LOG_DAEMON or one of the > LOG_LOCAL[0-7] ones? I think probably LOG_DAEMON.
