I was looking at the debian/ubuntu packaging of openerp-server and the  
packaging in progress of openerp-web. Both have init scripts which launch the 
processes under the "openerp" user id. My feeling is that it would be more 
secure to run the two under different unix users so that if someone managed to 
compromise openerp-web and get shell access they would not be able to connect 
directly to postgres with ident access and ownership of the tables, they would 
still have to go via the openerp-server api.

The installation instructions on the openerp.com site also seem to describe 
both -server and -web running under the openerp username.

Am I right in my thinking? Are there any downsides to running the two as 
different users?
I am mainly concerned with the single server scenario, when running the front 
end and back end on different servers I guess this is a non-issue.




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