Subj : Re: Nightmares / Dreams
To   : 2twisty
From : Andre
Date : Sat Apr 02 2022 10:37:26

 2t> I launch mu bbs with 
 2t> sudo -u unprivuser /mystic/mis daemon

 2t> Same thing with the MRC python script. None of this BBS stuff runs as
 2t> root. If I needed more privs, I'd make another user account with just
 2t> enough privs to do the job. 

Sync has a similar way to run as non priviledged. For any modern linux system it's three lines of config changes.


Defining which users (in sbbs.ini) to run as:
http://wiki.synchro.net/config:nix

Starting it automatically on Linux as non-root:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:linux_non-root



- Andre
--- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
 * Origin: Radio Mentor BBS - bbs.radiomentor.org (21:3/117)

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