[Buildbot-devel] drop privileges in master?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
> In other daemons, the usual solution is that the daemon opens
> the port before doing anything else, then does a setuid() to a
> configurable user.  Is there anything similar I can do with the
> buildmaster?
>
> Or maybe there's a way to do that with inetd?  Unfortunately I
> have almost no experience with inetd as most daemons are meant to
> run standalone on newish Linuxen.

The usual solution is to run some sort of HTTP proxy in front of the
buildmaster - nginx, lighttpd, etc.

Dustin