tree 470503ee60090410739a05d447b9ca8bb26818f4
parent 26181531347842dd6f3dd56df3d35347f2c5868d
author Steve DiBenedetto <dibenede@cs.colostate.edu> 1396907139 -0600
committer Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu> 1399594492 -0700

core: add support for temporary privilege drop and elevation

Added "user" and "group" options to general section of configuration file.
NFD will attempt to set the effective group and user id to these values
after initializing all management modules.

Added privilege helper to drop and temporarily elevate privileges on demand.

Updated README.md with instructions to configure NFD to drop privileges.

Added handler for general confguration file section.

refs: #1370

Change-Id: Id27140ad2dc2ca14751058691511132a35649d58