Patch: don't drop privs unless running as root

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Sat Apr 30 23:43:02 CEST 2005


Thanks - will be in CVS soon.

On 29 Apr 2005 at 14:10, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Ahoy.
> 
> I've made a small patch to allow nagios to be run without dropping
> privileges if it's started as a non-root user.
> 
> Apply with
> patch -p1 < nagios-nonroot-no_priv_drop.diff
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Lead Developer
> 



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
---
Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org



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