* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-23 01:45:10]: > On Monday 22 September 2008 20:30, Zero3 wrote: > > I really don't understand why creating a user - a measure which is solely > intended to improve security by not having Freenet run as System - causes > concern for so many windows-using geeks. You can't log in as that user, and > thus it isn't visible on the login screen. And it's standard practice on > unix. And it improves your security against a hypothetical exploit in > Freenet. WHY IS THIS BAD? Having said that, it does seem to cause some > installation failures, so maybe we should turn it off. However, running as > the installing user isn't straightforward, we'd probably end up running as > System. Nextgens??? >
Running as the installing user isn't an option unless we ask him for his password AND store it in cleartext in a file... or we don't use the windows services at all. Running it as System is what we have been doing before you pushed hard on me to find a solution to https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=1231
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