2012/11/27 Steven VanDevender <ste...@uoregon.edu> > [...] > One gathers you're not really a practicing sysadmin. What you cite are > a bunch of good reasons one should avoid running daemons and > applications as root. But you can't create and manage the mechanisms > that are used to avoid running things as root without root access.
[...] The question is more what actions are done by the daemon. Compiling the catalog, transfer files from a file server, sending reports to a central instance and a lot of stuff more are not necessarily things where the daemon need root privileges, installing packages or replacing configuration files is a different thing. But under normal circumstances it is better to only be root if it is really necessary. So starting as a user and gain more privileges only where needed. Regards, Thomas -- Linux ... enjoy the ride! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
