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Date:      Thu, 7 May 2020 23:27:14 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ben Woods <woodsb02@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r534305 - head/net/dhcpcd-devel
Message-ID:  <202005072327.047NREma075498@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: woodsb02
Date: Thu May  7 23:27:14 2020
New Revision: 534305
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/534305

Log:
  net/dhcpcd-devel: Improve pkg-descr description of new dhcpcd-9 features

Modified:
  head/net/dhcpcd-devel/pkg-descr

Modified: head/net/dhcpcd-devel/pkg-descr
==============================================================================
--- head/net/dhcpcd-devel/pkg-descr	Thu May  7 23:19:06 2020	(r534304)
+++ head/net/dhcpcd-devel/pkg-descr	Thu May  7 23:27:14 2020	(r534305)
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ dhcpcd is a DHCP/IPv4LL/IPv6RS/DHCPv6 client.
 It can also act as a network manager, responding to new interfaces,
 listening for carrier up/down events and managing routes.
 
-dhcpcd-9 includes privilege separation; operations which do not require
-root privileges are run in a chroot (/var/chroot/dhcpcd) as the
-unprivileged user _dhcp.
+dhcpcd-9 introduces a number of security improvements:
+- privilege separation; operations which do not require root privileges
+  are run in a chroot /var/chroot/dhcpcd as the unprivileged user _dhcp
+- capsicumized all network facing processes; all fd's in network facing
+  processes are fully limited
 
 This is an experimental version for testing purposes.
 



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