Dhclient Fixed For Spitz, quotes from omegamoon blog Options

[Jon_J]

I didn't see this "fix" anywhere on OESF, so I decided to post it here.
This has worked for me on my SL-C3100. I'm not sure if this works on all covered models.
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credit goes to Stefani at omegamoon blog:
dhclient will fail with message "can't create addrlist socket" due the bad or missing support of the kernel capabilities.

Setting the user and group id of dhcp both to 0 (root) will solve the problem.

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credit goes to crash at omegamoon blog:
You have to modify the "dhcp" entry in the /etc/passwd file. That was a tip by Stefani earlier before:
"...Setting the user and group id of dhcp both to 0 (root) will solve the problem..."

[speculatrix]

ah, that explains it! of course, if dhcpcd/dhclient wasn't running as root, it'd b0rk!

thanks for alerting us. that really does help!

[teh.sean]

You have to modify the "dhcp" entry in the /etc/passwd file. That was a tip by Stefani earlier before:
"...Setting the user and group id of dhcp both to 0 (root) will solve the problem..."

To those here who are linux newbies (like me!), would that be:

CODE

chmod u+s,g+s dhcp

Assuming I was already in /etc/passwd ?

[teh.sean]

Wait, further research makes me think this is a modification to the actual /etc/passwd file?

And in fact it is. For newbies: modify the dhcp line in /etc/passwd. The numbers 101 and 103 should be 0's.