On 09/03/13 16:33, marius adrian popa wrote: > Seems the right way , so less privileges = is better > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Alex Peshkoff <peshk...@mail.ru> wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> In posix builds since FB2.0 we use 'firebird' runuser as default, but >> support (at least on linux) scripts to switch between 'firebird' and >> 'root' runusers. It's clear that using root as runuser is potential >> security hole for any system. On the other hand no problems with running >> firebird server in non-root mode were found during that years. Therefore >> I suggest to drop support of switching firebird to 'root' runuser since >> FB3. (Certainly it does not prevent user to switch runuser to 'root' >> manually, but this is not our issue.) >> >> Any problems with this suggestion?
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