HEADSUP! dhclient(8) sandboxing.

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 4 15:59:25 UTC 2013


On 7/4/13 2:30 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:04:21PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> On 7/3/13 3:52 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I've just committed Capsicum sandboxing for the dhclient(8).
>>> Let me know (ideally by sending e-mail to current@ and CCing me) if you
>>> notice any weird behaviour.
>>>
>>> The work was sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.
>>>
>> It broke running dhclient on igb0 for me.  It says "interface not found"
>> or something to that effect.
>>
>> Can I help somehow?
>>
>> Basically just "ifconfig down igb0" then try to run dhclient.  It will
>> not work.  If you "up" the interface and then run it, it is OK.
>>
>> See attached image.
> Thanks for the report. Could you try this patch?
>
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/dhclient.c.patch
>

Thanks Pawel,

That fixes it for me.  I see it's also already committed.

Sorry for taking so long to respond, I think we're on opposite time of 
day. :)

-Alfred



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