(RADIATOR) Switch to non root id and logfile ownership

[Markus Moeller]

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Markus Moeller wrote:
> </snipp>
>>> I was thinking specifically of the case were radiator tries to
>>> log something before it has read the config and thus parsed
>>> the user and group from the config.
>>>
>>> There are a couple of places in Radius::Configurable::parse where
>>> radiator writes to the log.  Radiator also loads perl modules on demand
>>> while parsing the config causing further code to be run.
>>>
>>
>> Fair point. There could be such situations. Ideally just before changeing 
>> the uid/gid all already opened logfiles need to change ownership.
>
> radiator does not keep logfiles open. It just opens, appends, closes.
> So one would have to keep track of which logs have already been appended 
> to.  Easy enough to do but somewhat kludgy.
>
> In cases where it matters I prefer to just start radiator with the
> correct uid/gid out of the startup scripts using su.
>

su doesn't work in my case as I run Radiator as TACAC+ server. It then 
listens on port 49 and only root has access to that port.

> Greetings
> Christian
>
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Regards
Markus


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