On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, paolo greco wrote: >Kras Kresh wrote: > >> Before, the syslog was write protected during game play. >> Now, it is not. I need to know why. > >Ever tried to launch circlemud from root user? PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T RUN CIRCLEMUD AS ROOT!!! [1] Running CircleMUD as root is a bad, bad idea. It has had nowhere near the level of security auditing required to run as root. Additionally, even if we did do that audit, chances are _you_ aren't going to keep up that level of attention for your changes. The paranoid could extend this and surmise correctly that they want to run the MUD as its own account, with as little privileges as possible. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org 1: Borrowed and adapted from Jeremy's warning in 'olc.c'. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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