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neillans

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Cron / Configd - What user?

« on: 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, run under?

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franco

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Re: Cron / Configd - What user?

« Reply #1 on: 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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Re: Cron / Configd - What user?

« Reply #2 on: 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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Re: Cron / Configd - What user?

« Reply #3 on: 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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