Re: Beacon 0.9.58-2
At 03:36 PM 7/15/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:27:02PM -0500, Mitch Kutzko wrote:
> > This update implments the ability to change the UID the Beacon is running
> > as to a non-privileged user. It also uses Net::Domain to get the
hostname,
> > instead of Sys::Hostname, so it's more accurate now. (Thanks to John
> > Kristoff at Northwestern for both patches!)
>
> I've always run the Beacon as a non-privileged user to begin with. Is
> there any reason to start it as root anyway?
None. In fact, one of the things I'll be adding shortly is a hyperlink on
the beacon_info page for user=root, that links to the FAQ and explains why
running the Beacon as root probably isn't what they want to do.
Mitch
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