Bug 253882 - daemon should not run as "nobody"
Summary: daemon should not run as "nobody"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: memcached
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Lindner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-22 16:27 UTC by Joe Orton
Modified: 2007-12-22 21:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-12-22 21:02:06 UTC
Type: ---
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run memcached as user memcached (2.50 KB, text/plain)
2007-08-22 21:18 UTC, Ruben Kerkhof 		no flags Details
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Description Joe Orton 2007-08-22 16:27:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
The idea of the "nobody" user is that no process on the system runs as this user.
Daemons should not be configured to run as the "nobody" user by default; doing
so is a security risk.
Comment 1 Ruben Kerkhof 2007-08-22 21:18:36 UTC 
Created attachment 164108 [details]
run memcached as user memcached

Hi Paul,

Patch against cvs devel attached, which fixes this.
Comment 2 Paul Lindner 2007-08-23 15:17:30 UTC 
okay, I'll apply that patch to devel.
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