Subj : Really in need of help...
To   : paulie420
From : niter3
Date : Tue Dec 06 2022 01:17 pm

 pa>  ni> What's the issue running it under sudo. You can add an entry to your
 pa>  ni> sudo file to only allow the bbs user the permission to open mystic as
 pa>  ni> sudo, deny everything else. You can set it up so you don't even need 
 pa>  ni> enter a password and then tie this to a systemd script.
 pa> 
 pa> Nothing wrong w/ running as sudo, except I'd be willing to bet that 75%
 pa> of the users who doso DON'T do the few things you listed above to
 pa> mitigate any issues. In fact, I bet most are running on their one user
 pa> account on the machine... :P
 pa> 
 pa> But yes, the above way would be pretty solid too. 

I've been doing this for a while now. I moved over to MIS less then a year ago. I was using a custom version of xinetd for years. Since 2008.

.... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

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