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Subject: help!  should ports make uids?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:43:37 +0000
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I'm working on the port of a background process that runs
as root, currently.  It doesn't need to run as root, but
it does need to store and access a configuration file
that contains a password.

Should the port install a user id and run as that user or
should the port run as root?  Or as "nobody"?  HELP! 
Thanks.

Eyal

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