Linux capabilities support

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.
This commit is contained in:
Miroslav Lichvar
2008-11-05 23:50:48 +00:00
committed by Richard P. Curnow
parent 8336f14680
commit be42b4eeea
8 changed files with 95 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ been able to determine accurate statistics for the difference
between the real time clock and system clock last time the
computer was on.
.TP
\fB\-u\fR \fIuser\fR
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.
.TP
.B \-v
This option displays \fBchronyd\fR's version number to the terminal and exits