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neillans
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Cron / Configd - What user?
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March 01, 2019, 03:51:45 pm »
What user do the scheduled jobs, for example those created as in
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11798.msg53551
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franco
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Re: Cron / Configd - What user?
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March 01, 2019, 03:53:53 pm »
configctl is called via cron user nobody and then configd performs these operations as root.
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neillans
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March 01, 2019, 04:02:14 pm »
Thanks Franco!
So, just to be doubly sure, the underlying script that is being called will run with root privileges?
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March 01, 2019, 04:25:13 pm »
Yes, it has to in order to be able to configure the system. configd was built for privilege separation.
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