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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons
From:       Herbert Xu <herbert () gondor ! apana ! org ! au>
Date:       1999-11-13 23:03:42
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Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com> wrote:
>
> I have a daemon that does _not_ require root priviledges to work
> normally.  It does produce some log files, however.  Is there a
> standard technique for handling this situation (I mean starting the
> daemon in init.d as a non-priviledged user but still having permission
> to write to logs)?  The trick is, I would rather not create a new user
> or group just for this daemon.

There is nothing wrong with creating a new user when the alternative is
running as root.
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