On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:35:26PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) said:
> I think too, that most daemons need both a dedicated user and a dedicated
> group.
Depending on what they do, certainly.
Actually, I'd like to point forward to SELinux for a possible solution.
With SELinux, you can generally separate them effectively without having
different users/groups. SELinux is in the 2.6.0-test kernels and works
quite well...
michaelkjohnson
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