Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons
>Yes there is. We have a scant number of dynamically allocated low user ID's,
>and your rwhod, telnetd, identd, etc users are eating them rapidly. Please
>think ahead instead of blindly creating new users, and please notice we have
>a single "daemon" user already made that is meant to be there so random
>daemons can run as it, not root.
Wont this mean if the user breaks into one daemon running as userid
"daemon", then he/she can break into any daemon running with that
userid (not to mention log files, etc)?
Not that I understand how telnetd can run as non-root, so maybe
I am missing something here.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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