[RFC] hostnamed

[Ludwig Nussel]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> just wanted to mention that systemd git now as a tiny daemon "hostnamed"
> which is started on demand via dbus, and whose purpose is exactly three
> things: provide a PK authenticated way for UI tools to change the
> hostname, for sending out change signals when the hostname changes and

Shouldn't the kernel itself already emit events if the hostname
changes? So actually all sethostname() calls are detected?

Also, beware of CVE-2011-0997.

cu
Ludwig

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