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- Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:02 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: Services running under non-SYSTEM account?
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <36A00FB320NOV92210402@TGV.COM>
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- > Is there any way to have the MultiNet server process start up a service under a
- > different username? For example, I'd like NNTP to start up under the NEWSMGR
- > account so that I can properly bill for it and to limit the damage it could do
- > if it went haywire. Similarly, we've got customer applications that could
- > benefit from having their own service but there's no way I can let them have
- > the system (which is what would happen if I let them run now).
-
- > Is this in 3.2 or currently planned for a future release?
-
- Not in V3.2 nor planned for a future release. You can always write
- your own listener instead of using the MULTINET_SERVER if you have
- special accounting requirements in the mean time.
-
- Ken
-