189625 – net-p2p/mldonkey default initscript runs it with root privileges

Bug 189625 - net-p2p/mldonkey default initscript runs it with root privileges

Summary: net-p2p/mldonkey default initscript runs it with root privileges

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Default Configs (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Reported:	2007-08-20 18:15 UTC by Anatoly
Modified:	2007-08-20 18:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Anatoly 2007-08-20 18:15:12 UTC

After default installation of net-p2p/mldonkey it runs as root regardless of settings in config files because of a bug in initscript:

currently /etc/init.d/mldonkey looks like:
start() {
  ...
  start-stop-daemon --start --user $USER
  ...
}

should be:

start() {
  ...
  start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $USER
  ...
}

Comment 1 Anatoly 2007-08-20 18:26:04 UTC

update to initial post:

should be:

MLDONKEY_USER="p2p"
start() {
  ...
  start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $MLDONKEY_USER ...
  ...
}

my mistake :)

Comment 2 Anatoly 2007-08-20 18:51:55 UTC

that was for 2.9.0-r1
2.9.0-r2 works just fine