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libvirt package

  1. Bug #1743718
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1743718

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Apicultor (apicultor) wrote : Re: libvirt-daemon-system package runs dnsmasq as root

>BTW, 'nobody' is strictly reserved for NFS use. If any processes run as user 'nobody' then that process would have undue influence over NFS.

Did you miss this bit, where dnsmasq *is* running as "nobody"?

$ sudo ps aux | grep dnsmasq | grep -v grep
nobody 3771 0.0 0.0 54552 388 ? S 18:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_leaseshelper
root 3772 0.0 0.0 54524 388 ? S 18:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-ro --dhcp-script=/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_leaseshelper

Having two copies of it running doesn't seem like the correct behaviour to me.