On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Buddy Shearer wrote: > If an admin like myself is running JFFNMS for monitoring a network then how > many user ids should there be? (Don't answer) > > mysql for MySQL - per MySQL setup instructions > jffnms for JFFNMS - per JFFNMS setup instructions > pgsql for Postrgresql - per setup instructions > myownid for *nix > and then we have root Plus another for the apache server.
> If I replace myownid instead of using mysql, jffnms, and pgsql would I not > save myself a bunch of permission issues when there are conflicts? You would also be expanding the potiential damage. That's one important difference between Unix and Windows is that things don't typically run as the same uid in Unix so any damage is lessened. > I am discovering that even though I have a semi-working system. The jffnms > user cannot start Postgresql and root cannot start it either. And since I > run from root this makes life a tad difficult. Oh, and crontab apparently > does not run poller.php and friends due to permissions issues as well. jffnms user should definitely not start Postgresql, root should be able to but is most likely to su to another user. It is best to fix the problems than put everything into one bad lump that reduces your security. The problems probably stem from something going really wrong in the install stage. -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ jffnms-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users
