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:fire: vcontrold Daemon for control and logging of Viessmann® type heating devices
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Dropping privileges when run as root #21

Closed speters closed 6 years ago

speters commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/openv/vcontrold/issues/20 made me think of security. Dropping root privileges might be a first measure. Pid file deliberately does not get chowned.

speters commented 6 years ago

pid file location is now configurable. If not set, no pid file is written. pidfile, username, groupname are also configurable in the config file.