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From: ERACC <junkmail@eracc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: IKSD from a user account?
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:27:14 -0500
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:23:57 +0000, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> ERACC wrote:
>
>> I've been looking into running IKSD as a regular user instead of as
>> root for security reasons. For example like Squid starts up as "root"
>> but runs all its' other processes as user "squid", same with Apache
>> and user "apache". [...]
>
> IKSD does not have any secondary processes. IKSD must be able to
> switch to the userid of the authenticated and authorized user
> in order to access the filesystem as the user. It would certainly
> be possible to re-architect C-Kermit to allow login to be performed
> and then have a user process be kicked off but I am not going to be
> the one to do the work.
>
> You can always run C-Kermit as an OpenSSH subsystem.
>
> http://www.kermit-project.org/skermit.html
Hmmm. Ok, I'll look into implementing this. The client is going to
have about 200 remote locations hitting this over the internet for
pricing downloads daily. I hope I can do it with this solution. I'd
really like to get a 200 site license sale for The Kermit Project.
You guys have been great with solutions to my data x-fer needs over
the years. ;-)
Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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