[colord] [PATCH] Allow the daemon to run with a different user

[Richard Hughes]

On 23 August 2011 12:44, Christopher James Halse Rogers
<christopher.halse.rogers at canonical.com> wrote:
> Since nothing during daemon initialisation seems to require root, it's probably
> easier to just ask dbus to start the daemon as the user we want rather than
> starting as root and dropping privs.

You're right -- it's much easier just to do than drop privs in the daemon.

I've applied this in git master. There's a new upstream release on the
first Monday of the month (every month) so there's not long to wait if
you want to ship the new tarball.

Thanks,

Richard.