[Bug 1186662] Re: isc-dhcp-server fails to renew lease file

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 08:46:59PM -0000, Dominik wrote:

> It seems to me, that the leases file is created as root after startup and
> then the user of the processs changes to dhcp or whatever.

The systemd unit for isc-dhcp-server very explicitly sets the permissions on
/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases to be writable by the dhcpd process, before it is
ever started.

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Title:
  isc-dhcp-server fails to renew lease file

Status in isc-dhcp package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After raring upgrade, the dhcp server fails to renew lease file when
  it tries to (about every hour).

  The syslog says:
  dhcpd: Can't create new lease file: Permission denied

  It looks like a permission problem, because

  # chown -R dhcpd:dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp

  the above command temporarily solves the issue, until dhcpd is
  restarted: at that time, the ownership of the directory and the lease
  file is set back to root:root.

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