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On September 20, 2005 03:03 am Holly Bostick was like: |
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> Frankly, I avoided the entire 'user p2p' issue by editing |
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> /etc/conf.d/mldonkey: |
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> # owner of mlnet process (don't change, must be existing) |
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> USER="me" |
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> # home dir of owner (don't change, must be existing) |
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> BASEDIR="/home/me" |
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I know it probably wouldn't do too much harm to run mldonkey as user robert |
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because I am probably not a juicy enough target for your hackers and whatnot, |
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but I do feel reassured by the extra security and would rather not give it |
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up. |
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Also, there is a more general issue here, to do with the Gentoo way of calling |
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the start-stop-daemon script in the init.d scripts, which seems to make it |
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impossible to set umask within those init.d scripts. AFAIK some other |
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distros, such as Mandrake, construct their init.d scripts differently and |
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therefore avoid this problem. The inclusion of a --umask option in |
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start-stop-daemon would obviously solve this. I just want to check that |
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there is no workaround before I file an enhancement request in the bugzilla. |
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Robert Persson |
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"Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." |
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(US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) |
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