Bug 492418

Summary:	net-analyzer/fail2ban: expose chuid of process
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Johan Bergström <bugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/master/doc/run-rootless.txt
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Johan Bergström 2013-11-24 11:02:23 UTC

There's ways of running fail2ban as a non-root user. In order to do so, we need to expose user/group passed to start-stop-daemon in the conf.d.

Here's the documentation for accomplishing a non-root fail2ban:
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/master/doc/run-rootless.txt

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-03-15 13:44:33 UTC

We don't use our own conf.d script - upstream provides that.