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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-02-17 17:42:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-02-17 17:42:53 -0400 |
| commit | fbb0451997777bc30e1993d57397e5ad47b6981d (patch) | |
| tree | d198daa88ea9c5edac27d8bb58cd13b5a3b6e4f4 | |
| parent | 487cfaa977153b06c17a514824712d2c3cf88ce8 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/root_assistant__63__/comment_1_fccab2e36d393f420d0fa23958e6a9d2._comment b/doc/forum/root_assistant__63__/comment_1_fccab2e36d393f420d0fa23958e6a9d2._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2fd418d56 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/root_assistant__63__/comment_1_fccab2e36d393f420d0fa23958e6a9d2._comment @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-02-17T21:41:27Z" + content=""" +I would not recommend running the assistant as root. Any security issue +would escalate the root access; any bug could result in some root level +damage to system. + +Of course, I don't know of any such security issues or bugs. If I did, I'd +be fixing them. + +On my system, /usr/local is managed by group staff. It seems much safer to +make the assistant be run by some non-root user who is in the staff group. +"""]] |