Bug 801370

Summary:	www-servers/nginx: Entirely running as non-root via capabilities
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, hydrapolic, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2021-07-09 18:40:33 UTC

I wanted to introduce IUSE=caps to nginx with:
1. The nginx binary chmod 0500 + chown nginx + CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
2. openrc+systemd launching it directly as the nginx user

But with how large the ebuild for nginx already is I wondered if it wouldn't be better to make that the default instead?

btw 1. is done this way because https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/314 hasn't got a merged fix yet.

I can write and send a tested patch with OpenRC, I done the change manually outside of the ebuild some months back on one of my systems and it worked pretty well.