All answers helped a lot. Thanks, George On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:06:00 AM UTC-7, thbe wrote: > > 2012/11/27 Steven VanDevender <ste...@uoregon.edu <javascript:>> > >> [...] >> 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! > >
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