AdGuard Home : security and logging improvment #5817
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- Create a dedicated user (adguardhome) - Set needed rights to listen on dns port - Add user on service file - Logs are now on journald
CrazyWolf13
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| ExecStart=/opt/AdGuardHome/AdGuardHome "-s" "run" | ||
| ExecStart=/opt/AdGuardHome/AdGuardHome "-s" "run" "-l" "syslog" | ||
| WorkingDirectory=/opt/AdGuardHome | ||
| StandardOutput=file:/var/log/AdGuardHome.out | ||
| StandardError=file:/var/log/AdGuardHome.err |
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is there any added benefit of this?
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is easier to manage logs with journald than plain files
ex : rotating logs, search, ...
it's better to run it with a dedicated account to avoid privileges escalation issues |
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We have discussed this internaly with all maintainers and our conclusion was that we dont want to start to create individual users for all apps. |
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