Re: Bug#27205: OLD PROPOSAL] daemons should not run as root if possible

1999-06-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> Fair enough. Do we have such a set of guidelines? Until we Julian> do, I think it should be loudly noted *somewhere* that we try Julian> to avoid root-daemons if possible. I plead guilty. At one time I did volunteer

Bug#27205: OLD PROPOSAL] daemons should not run as root if possible

1999-06-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I second this proposal. > > Please don't. As Ian Jackson once said: things like this should > not be part of policy, but part os a set of coding guidelines. Fair enough. Do we have such a set of guidelines? Until we do, I think it should be loudly noted *so

Bug#27205: OLD PROPOSAL] daemons should not run as root if possible

1999-06-07 Thread Richard Braakman
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I second this proposal. > > Please don't. As Ian Jackson once said: things like this should > not be part of policy, but part os a set of coding guidelines. The one that Manoj volunteered to maintain? ;-) Richard Braakman

Bug#27205: OLD PROPOSAL] daemons should not run as root if possible

1999-06-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > I second this proposal. Please don't. As Ian Jackson once said: things like this should not be part of policy, but part os a set of coding guidelines. Wichert. -- == This combination of

Bug#27205: OLD PROPOSAL] daemons should not run as root if possible

1999-06-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
I second this proposal. Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg