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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