On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:09:39PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Anyway, I believe my post was justified, because the original poster > stated that he intended to run the daemon from cron. > > As this involves running a separate process, then using a shared user > id would open up security holes (eg with signals). Could you be more specific about the security hole possibilities of signalling? I'm not seeing anything critical in that. I maintain that it's well worth examining any new userids very carefully, since we don't currently have a decent method for managing them. If that changes there won't be any problem with handing them out loosely, but until then they're a headache. -- Mike Stone
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