On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:11:18PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > irc: > > > > HELP: Why does an irc daemon need its own static user and group? > > Because no one wants to trust it? :) > > It doesn't. Of course, removnig them is tricky. This is a bug in ircd. It setuid()s itself to a given UID on startup, if started as root, but doesn't know how to look up a name to get that UID - the UID is actually set at compile time. It does not need a uid. The correct solution is to #undef IRC_UID in config.h, which will cause it to error and exit if started as root. It should then be started from an init.d script that runs it as a suitable user, which then need not be static. -- Andrew Suffield <asuffield@users.sourceforge.net> Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK
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