On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 at 01:19, Marco d'Itri wrote about "Re: weekly policy...":
> >Daemons should run as root only if really needed (#27205) > > * Old. > > * Proposed by Marco d'Itri. > > * As title; this should be in policy. > Anyone wants to second this? :-) I'll bite. It's definitely worthwhile from a security viewpoint -- but it requires packages to relook at, a lot, their needs for daemons as root. It could introduce bugs, and we find out that some daemons won't run properly as root -- but that's easily solved by making them run as root again. So nothing's lost except time -- with a possible gain in security. Yes, this is a good ide.a -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (410) 602-1350 Project Genesis http://www.torah.org/
