Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:12:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200108151514.f7FFEL419837@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20010815123315.A35365@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On 15 Aug, David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:33:17PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> On 14 Aug, Robert Watson wrote:
>> > All of these programs do involve risk, syslogd possibly a fair
>> > amount less so, and I'd be open to discussing how to disable them
>> > but minimize impact from an administrative standpoint.
>> BTW, how hard is it to make syslogd run as nobody? Perhaps,
>> nobody:operator? Does it have to be root?
> It could possibly change to another uid after it had made it's sockets
> (port 514 and /var/run/log), connected to /dev/klog and opened all the
> log files. It would have to change back again if you HUPed it though.
Just like bind?.. Ok.
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