2013/2/6 Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@debian.org>: > On 07/02/2013 01:35, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> > >> Which would be the wrong way of doing things / wrong reason >> for using root as running user, since you can set the >> CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability... (man capabilities ...) > > Yeah, I figured as much, but isn't that a Linuxism?
illumos (OpenSolaris) kernel has "privileges" [1] So some services (can't remember which) are not started as root at all. [1] http://illumos.org/man/5/privileges -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/call-q8y0ui+tv7fzsyjyuo1vsyydd2xaehvmhywu4oy6tov...@mail.gmail.com
