[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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