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Linux capabilities support

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Attached is a patch adding a linux capabilities support to chronyd. It
adds -u option which can be used to specify the user which chronyd
should switch to.
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Miroslav Lichvar
2008-11-05 23:50:48 +00:00
committed by Richard P. Curnow
parent 8336f14680
commit be42b4eeea
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@@ -1089,6 +1089,9 @@ to work well, it relies on @code{chronyd} having been able to determine
accurate statistics for the difference between the real time clock and
system clock last time the computer was on.
@item -u <user>
When this option is used, chronyd will drop root privileges to the specified
user. So far, it works only on Linux when compiled with capabilities support.
@item -v
This option displays @code{chronyd's} version number to the terminal and
exits.