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RE: server/client programs



Yes run it as games or even nobody.  Does the server itself require root to run
it?  Remember if it is on a server, then the users often do not have access to
it as they are running the client on another machine.  So root controlling the
data files is not of extreme importance.

On 12-Oct-98 Darren Benham wrote:
> 
> On 12-Oct-98 Shaleh wrote:
>> If at all possible it should avoid running as root. You can provide an
>> init.d
>> script and allow people to install it themselves.  The same script could be
>> used to manually start the server as well.  So version -1 could place the
>> script in say /usr/games and version -2 could offer to place it in
>> /etc/init.d
>> by running update-rc.d.
>> 
> 
> Avoid running as root?  So, SUID permissions??  SUID permissions but don't
> use
> root use.... games.games ??
> 
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E-Mail: Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>
Date: 12-Oct-98
Time: 13:35:50

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