| Dongwook Jang wrote: |
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Hi,
I really don't understand why elogd cannot run by root but it runs by a user.
I've put elog deamon in /etc/init.d. So it didn't bring up, but it runs if I run it by user interactively.
Thanks,
Dongwook
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That's a security issue. If elogd runs under a user and gets hacked, the hacker obtains just the user rights, which can be limited. If it runs under root, the hacker will automatically get root rights, which is bad. Technically, there is no reason why elogd cannot be run as root. Just put
Usr = root
Grp = root
into elogd.cfg. |