Bug#27205: OLD PROPOSAL] daemons should not run as root if possible

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I second this proposal.
> 
> Please don't. As Ian Jackson once said: things like this should
> not be part of policy, but part os a set of coding guidelines.

Fair enough.  Do we have such a set of guidelines?  Until we do, I
think it should be loudly noted *somewhere* that we try to avoid
root-daemons if possible.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg