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commit24b9a642987a3dd83f4f5ed920e22ac193d8613a[log] [tgz]
authorSteve DiBenedetto <dibenede@cs.colostate.edu>Mon Apr 07 15:45:39 2014 -0600
committerAlexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>Thu May 08 17:14:52 2014 -0700
tree470503ee60090410739a05d447b9ca8bb26818f4
parent26181531347842dd6f3dd56df3d35347f2c5868d [diff]
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
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  1. .waf-tools/
  2. core/
  3. daemon/
  4. docs/
  5. rib/
  6. tests/
  7. tools/
  8. .gitignore
  9. .travis.yml
  10. AUTHORS.md
  11. common.hpp
  12. COPYING.md
  13. INSTALL.md
  14. nfd.conf.sample.in
  15. README-dev.md
  16. README.md
  17. unit-tests.conf.sample
  18. version.hpp.in
  19. waf
  20. wscript
README.md

NFD - Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon

NFD is a network forwarder that implements and evolves together with the Named Data Networking (NDN) protocol. After the initial release, NFD will become a core component of the NDN Platform and will follow the same release cycle.

NFD is an open and free software package licensed under GPL 3.0 license and is the centerpiece of our committement to making NDN's core technology open and free to all Internet users and developers. For more information about the licensing details and limitation, refer to COPYING.md.

NFD is developed by a community effort. Although the first release was mostly done by the members of NSF-sponsored NDN project team, it already contains significant contributions from people outside the project team (for more details, refer to AUTHORS.md). We strongly encourage participation from all interested parties, since broader community support is key for NDN to succeed as a new Internet architecture. Bug reports and feedback are highly appreciated and can be made through Redmine site and the ndn-interest mailing list.

The main design goal of NFD is to support diverse experimentation of NDN technology. The design emphasizes modularity and extensibility to allow easy experiments with new protocol features, algorithms, new applications. We have not fully optimized the code for performance. The intention is that performance optimizations are one type of experiments that developers can conduct by trying out different data structures and different algorithms; over time, better implementations may emerge within the same design framework.

NFD will keep evolving in three aspects: improvement of the modularity framework, keeping up with the NDN protocol spec, and addition of other new features. We hope to keep the modular framework stable and lean, allowing researchers to implement and experiment with various features, some of which may eventually work into the protocol spec.

The design and development of NFD benefited from our earlier experience with CCNx software package. However, NFD is not in any part derived from CCNx codebase and does not maintain compatibility with CCNx.

Documentation

For more information refer to