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RE: [hobbit] Hobbit startup script.
- To: "'hobbit (at) hswn.dk'" <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
- Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit startup script.
- From: Craig Cook <Craig.Cook (at) carquest.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:04:18 -0400
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- Thread-topic: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit startup script.
>Sorry I wasn't asking how to do it, just why the script has to run as
>hobbit when you install out of the box.
It's a security thing. It is not good practice to run applications as root. If someone exploits a "let to be discovered" bug in Xymon they will not be able to crash it and become root.
Craig