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- From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: run GOPHERD from rc.local
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 03:15:26 GMT
- Organization: The University of Adelaide
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- Ezra Peisach (epeisach@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
-
- + I would add about 5 lines to the program to
- + a) Setuid/gid gohperd - don't let it run as root
-
- I was under the impression there was an undocumented
- optional field that allowed one to specify to inetd who the
- process should run as. I know for a fact this works under OSF/1,
- but I'm not sure about under Ultrix. Anyway, trying having a
- username as the fifth field, and pushing the other back one, and
- see if it works.
-
- Cya,
- Andrew.
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