Re: weekly policy summary
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 at 01:19, Marco d'Itri wrote about "Re: weekly policy...":
> >Daemons should run as root only if really needed (#27205)
> > * Old.
> > * Proposed by Marco d'Itri.
> > * As title; this should be in policy.
> Anyone wants to second this? :-)
I'll bite. It's definitely worthwhile from a security viewpoint -- but it
requires packages to relook at, a lot, their needs for daemons as root.
It could introduce bugs, and we find out that some daemons won't
run properly as root -- but that's easily solved by making them run as
root again. So nothing's lost except time -- with a possible gain in
security.
Yes, this is a good ide.a
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