On September 20, 2005 03:03 am Holly Bostick was like: > Frankly, I avoided the entire 'user p2p' issue by editing > /etc/conf.d/mldonkey: > > # owner of mlnet process (don't change, must be existing) > USER="me" > > # home dir of owner (don't change, must be existing) > BASEDIR="/home/me"
I know it probably wouldn't do too much harm to run mldonkey as user robert because I am probably not a juicy enough target for your hackers and whatnot, but I do feel reassured by the extra security and would rather not give it up. Also, there is a more general issue here, to do with the Gentoo way of calling the start-stop-daemon script in the init.d scripts, which seems to make it impossible to set umask within those init.d scripts. AFAIK some other distros, such as Mandrake, construct their init.d scripts differently and therefore avoid this problem. The inclusion of a --umask option in start-stop-daemon would obviously solve this. I just want to check that there is no workaround before I file an enhancement request in the bugzilla. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
