On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:39:43AM -0400, Knight, Doug wrote:
> All,
> 
> Why do certain heartbeat processes run with a real user ID of root, but
> an effective user ID of nobody?

It was introduced before I got here, but I'm sure that it was for
security reasons. The less code runs as root, the less potential
vulnerabilities.

Thanks,

Dejan

> The specific processes on our system
> that run this way are FIFO reader, write: bcast eth1, read:bcast eth1,
> write: ucast eth1, read: ucast eth1 lrmd, and stonithd. The other
> processes run either as root:root (master control process and mgmtd) or
> as 24:24 (ccm, cib, attrd, and crmd).
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug Knight
> 
> WSI Corp
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-HA mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha
> See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
_______________________________________________
Linux-HA mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha
See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems

Reply via email to