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Without CAP_CHOWN the daemon cannot chown the Unix socket to group interfire after bind, so interfired exits and clients see a missing socket. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Summary
CAP_CHOWNtointerfired.serviceso the daemon can chown the Unix IPC socket to groupinterfireafter bind.interfiredexits immediately,/run/interfire/interfired.socknever stays up, and clients get a missing-socket error.Test plan
.debon a host with OpenSnitch stoppedsystemctl is-active interfired.servicestaysactive(not crash-loopactivating)interfire(newgrpor re-login):interfirectl pingandinterfirectl statuswork without sudoenforcement=paused