[Yum] Yum and Bittorrent
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Oct 21 03:44:34 UTC 2004
> I don't really see what the problem is with running bittorrent as
> root, but if Jarret is making sure that it doesn't run as root then I
> guess this problem is addressed already.
Running any externally accessible daemon as root is dangerous.
Running it as root when you it attached or connected in some way to a
program that modifies the rpmdb is incredibly scary.
-sv
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