Importing DHCPD into base tree

Andre Nathan andre at rootshell.be
Sat Oct 16 11:17:32 PDT 2004


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>      isc-dhcp3 is a pretty ugly piece of code.  The last time I looked
>      at it, which was about two years ago, I shivered at all the potential
>      stack overflows and security holes.

What about OpenBSD's dhcpd? I believe they have cleaned up the ISC code,
and it now runs as an unprivileged user "_dhcpd".

Andre





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