Re: Running MRTG as a non-root user - thoughts?
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 08:36:18AM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> Anyone got any thoughts on this? I don't want to go through the whole
> process of switching to a non-root user if it isn't really necessary.
It is generally agreed that processes that needn't run with privileges should
not run with privileges. This is particularly applicable to the superuser. I
would say that MRTG should not run as root, as it doesn't perform any
operations that require superuser privilege.
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- mdz
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