Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 12:56:01 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: djv@bedford.net Cc: Kevin Rooney <Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRCU2 and rc.local Message-ID: <355211D1.9804CEF3@san.rr.com> References: <199805071655.MAA19700@castor.loco.net>
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CyberPeasant wrote: > > Kevin Rooney wrote: > > It seems the IRCU2 server will only start with setuid someone other than > > root. How do I write rc.local to automatically change the user who starts > > it at startup time? > > Two ways: > su username -c "command to be executed by shell" > or > make ircu2 suid to the user in question. As root, do: > chown username.usergroup name-of-executable > chmod u+s name-of-executable. > > The latter method may break things, and introduce unanticipated problems, > especially relating to security. Yes, your first method is definitely the way to go. NEVER EVER start an irc server as root, you're just *begging* to be hacked if you do. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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