From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:32:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: telemetryd: Add switch to run as a non-privileged user
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60a8142650ca150aa102d4346ff8e4a2ce0b9d36;p=telemetry.git

telemetryd: Add switch to run as a non-privileged user

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
---

diff --git a/src/daemon/main.c b/src/daemon/main.c
index cdd3a83..16129e1 100644
--- a/src/daemon/main.c
+++ b/src/daemon/main.c
@@ -36,17 +36,21 @@ static const char* doc = "The IPFire Telemetry Daemon";
 enum {
 	OPT_DEBUG  = 1,
 	OPT_SOURCE = 2,
+	OPT_USER   = 3,
 };
 
 static struct argp_option options[] = {
 	{ "debug", OPT_DEBUG, NULL, 0, "Run in debug mode", 0 },
 	{ "source", OPT_SOURCE, "SOURCE", 0, "Only enable this source (for testing)", 0 },
+	{ "user",   OPT_USER,   "USER",   0, "Run as user", 0 },
 	{ NULL },
 };
 
 // Collect all sources that should be enabled
 static char** sources = NULL;
 
+static const char* user = "nobody";
+
 static error_t parse(int key, char* arg, struct argp_state* state) {
 	td_ctx* ctx = state->input;
 
@@ -62,6 +66,10 @@ static error_t parse(int key, char* arg, struct argp_state* state) {
 		case OPT_SOURCE:
 			return td_strings_append(&sources, arg);
 
+		case OPT_USER:
+			user = arg;
+			break;
+
 		default:
 			return ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN;
 	}