[strongSwan] strongswan on Android devices
Tobias Brunner
tobias at strongswan.org
Tue Apr 17 17:12:37 CEST 2012
Hi Nitin,
> My ultimate concern is how to start the ipsec from the Android shell as
> a non root user.
That's not possible the daemon needs root permission initially to open
the netlink/xfrm sockets. Only afterwards can it switch the user ID to
a non root user. This is true for Linux too, setting the user ID in the
Makefile or via ./configure does not change this.
Regards,
Tobias
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