Policy about network-listening daemons running as root?

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Tue May 22 16:50:58 UTC 2007


Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> Do we have a policy about network-listening daemons not running as
> root? Not according to my perusal of fedoraproject.org, but I wanted
> to verify in case it's one of the "unwritten rules."
> 

This clearly falls under the unwritten use your common sense rule. IOW no 
daemon / service should run as root unless it absolutely must, and when not 
running as root it should have its own user, not use a system user shared with 
other daemons.

Regards,

Hans




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