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Specifying --group without a value inhibits any change of gid. This feature has existed since dnsmasq-2.43, released in 2008, but without documentation, it has been lost to time, even though it's useful in certain circumstances, mainly to do with containers. Thanks to Leon Busch-George for his efforts to fix this.
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@@ -174,12 +174,18 @@ Specify an alternate path for dnsmasq to record its process-id in. Normally /var
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.B \-u, --user=<username>
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Specify the userid to which dnsmasq will change after startup. Dnsmasq must normally be started as root, but it will drop root
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privileges after startup by changing id to another user. Normally this user is "nobody" but that
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can be over-ridden with this switch.
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can be over-ridden with this switch.
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.TP
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.B \-g, --group=<groupname>
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Specify the group which dnsmasq will run
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as. The default is "dip", if available, to facilitate access to
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/etc/ppp/resolv.conf which is not normally world readable.
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/etc/ppp/resolv.conf which is not normally world readable. If "dip" is not available, the default becomes
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the main group associated with the uid specified by
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.B --user
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, or "nobody".
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Specifying
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.B --group
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without an argument inhibits any change to the gid of the process, even to the defaults.
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.TP
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.B \-v, --version
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Print the version number.
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