Ok, some clarification. I am NOT talking about making the install
available to a non-root user. I am only speaking to running rxapi as a
non-root user. The install will still need to be performed by root.
What will happen is that just after rxapi writes to the pid file code
will be added that changes to process owner to "nobody". This will
eliminate root privileges for the process and thus make it more
attractive to the security paranoid.
The only change will be to add about 5 lines of code to the rxapi
startup functions.
David Ashley
On 07/14/2009 06:19 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
How about a compromise? We make the code changes to enable rxapi to
run as a normal process, but keep the install procedures the same for
now. The code is already in place to auto-launch rxapi if it is not
running, but currently this only works if you're running as root. If
we can eliminate that requirement, then there is a lot more
flexibility in how things get configured, and we probably don't need
to make any patches to the code to support the Mac,
Rick
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Mark Miesfeld<miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM, David Ashley<david.ashley....@gmail.com>
wrote:
Ok, I'm convinced. rxapi does not need to run as the root user on *nix
systems. It has nothing it needs to do which would require root privileges.
So the question becomes should we implement this change prior to the
release of 4.0 or wait until the next release?
I am not in favor of making a change now, well actually I'm against it.
I am in favor of having an install that doesn't require su to root to
install, but I think we should get this release out of the door and
plan on doing a follow up release in 3 months to fix bugs I know will
be reported and straighten out details like this one.
As far as I can see, the current 3.2.0 Linux rpms and debs can not be
installed unless you su to root. So what's the problem? There hasn't
been a single user complaint about this in 2 years.
In the current 4.0.0, you have to su to root to install the rpm or to
install the deb. After that there is no problem. This situation is
no different than it has been.
--
Mark Miesfeld
The code changes are
small but the testing could be a problem (although I do not expect any).
Opinions welcome.
David Ashley
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