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Message-ID: <523CD4B7.8010603@barfooze.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 01:05:27 +0200
From: John Spencer <maillist-owl@...fooze.de>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: Owl 3.0 and Virtual Machine Setup?

On 09/21/2013 12:47 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> # We do not officially support the DHCP client because it is rather
> # complicated, yet it runs entirely as root, which we find an
> # unacceptable and unjustified security risk.  If you enable this
> # setting, then you're essentially running your own revision of this
> # package, and you're on your own with possible vulnerabilities.
> %define BUILD_DHCP_CLIENT 0

maybe this dhcp client would suit owl's needs better ?
https://code.google.com/p/ndhcp/
(it was written by nicholas kain, who did musl's x86_64 port.)

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