Re: one user per daemon?

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:26:24PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > > the things is, when some of the "nobody" processes are compromised, > *every* daemon "nobody" has started is in danger to be killed or misused. > > /etc/password lists a lot of unused (but somehow standard-)users, they > could

Re: one user per daemon?

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:26:24PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > > the things is, when some of the "nobody" processes are compromised, > *every* daemon "nobody" has started is in danger to be killed or misused. > > /etc/password lists a lot of unused (but somehow standard-)users, they > could

one user per daemon?

hi, in another (german) newsgroup i saw a comment, being a bit upset about the general-every-distribution behaviour to install new daemons under a single user id. to be clear, if debconf/dpkg/whatever set up e.g. ntpd, the default is that "root" starts the daemon. or user "nobody" does, but a

one user per daemon?

hi, in another (german) newsgroup i saw a comment, being a bit upset about the general-every-distribution behaviour to install new daemons under a single user id. to be clear, if debconf/dpkg/whatever set up e.g. ntpd, the default is that "root" starts the daemon. or user "nobody" does, but a

one user per daemon?

hi, in another (german) newsgroup i saw a comment, being a bit upset about the general-every-distribution behaviour to install new daemons under a single user id. to be clear, if debconf/dpkg/whatever set up e.g. ntpd, the default is that "root" starts the daemon. or user "nobody" does, but an

one user per daemon?

hi, in another (german) newsgroup i saw a comment, being a bit upset about the general-every-distribution behaviour to install new daemons under a single user id. to be clear, if debconf/dpkg/whatever set up e.g. ntpd, the default is that "root" starts the daemon. or user "nobody" does, but an