19 Mar
2002
19 Mar
'02
12:21 p.m.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:02:41 +0100, "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@torped.se> wrote:
It's no security problem as I understand it. You start it as root, but with -u <username>, and it will run as username, and you have username as owner on all the files.
Thats not universally true In our configuration the z2.py script is routinely updated from a cvs repository that many people have write access to. It definitely is a security risk for me to run z2.py as root. Of course, other configurations are different. Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com