Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
This is not safe, since one run-away daemon can modify different daemons
logs or contrl the process with signals. Therefore daemon user is considered
as harmfull as nobody user.
Gretings
Bernd
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