Package: vlogger
Version: 1.1-2
Severity: wishlist

The vlogger example in the man page uses a www-logs user and group,
which seems to be a good precaution, rather than unnecessarily running
as user root.

I think it would be good if vlogger at least had a README that discussed
the potential risk of running as root, and explained the steps necessary
to take to add a www-log user:

   adduser --firstuid 100 --home /var/log/apache2 --disabled-login www-log
   chown www-log /var/log/apache2

Of course this is dependent on the log root.

Even better (though I don't know how this would fit into Debian),
perhaps vlogger's installation could prompt to create a www-log user or
something like that.

Charles

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (90, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1um
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages vlogger depends on:
ii  libtimedate-perl              1.1600-4   Time and date functions for Perl
ii  perl                          5.8.4-6    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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