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Bug 325859 - strongswan ebuild should warn about using the non-root use flag
Summary: strongswan ebuild should warn about using the non-root use flag
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Patrick Lauer
URL: http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/1/Red...
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Reported: 2010-06-27 18:29 UTC by Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2010-06-27 20:58 UTC (History)
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Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-27 18:29:20 UTC
When using the non-root use flag for strongswan (which is the standard way), the iptables commands called from the updown script fails.

This is described here: http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/1/ReducedPrivileges

The ebuild should notify the user about this, and tell them that they should look here, and maybe deploy some sort of sudo workaround if they need the leftfirewall option.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Matthias Dahl 2010-06-27 18:51:33 UTC
Actually both versions currently in portage try to get as much important information to the user as possible... and there is also a fair share about the downside of running strongswan w/o root privileges (including a link to the appropriate wiki page).

So the information is indeed there. Please, if I am missing the point, just let me know. Or did you mean that those messages should be ewarn instead of einfo?
Comment 2 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-27 20:58:15 UTC
Hmm, seems like I have missed that, by bad.

I discovered another bug - it tries to install ipsec.secrets, which does not exist, maybe a demo ipsec.secrets should be included?