Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:34:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > There is nothing wrong with creating a new user when the alternative is
> > > running as root.
> > 
> > Yes there is. We have a scant number of dynamically allocated low user ID's,
>                           ^^^^^
> 
> We have about 900.  On my system, Herbert's voracious packages are using
> three.  Other packages, all combined, are using zero.  Needless to say,
> I'm not sweating this one.

And how many daemons are in debian? At least 300, I'd say.

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