Re: Usercreation-policy

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:35:26PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Enrico Scholz (enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de) said: 
> > I think too, that most daemons need both a dedicated user and a dedicated
> > group.
> 
> Depending on what they do, certainly.

Actually, I'd like to point forward to SELinux for a possible solution.
With SELinux, you can generally separate them effectively without having
different users/groups.  SELinux is in the 2.6.0-test kernels and works
quite well...

michaelkjohnson

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