John Cowan schrieb: > On 11/7/07, Patrick Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It shouldn't be launched as root, that is true. > > There is no reason at all not to run a root ng-server, provided it > defends itself from requests by non-root users using something like > Tom Enebo's model.
well there is at last the problem that you will need root rights to start the server. Root rights are to be avoided as much as possible. that's a general rule. If it is not possible, then there must be a very good reason for this or no sane administrator will install that software and a normal user couldn't. > It's important to remember that *every* Unix system is multi-user: > even on a dedicated personal computer, there's always you and root. these are real users, but there are normally much more users than only these, usually for special processes like the apache server (it is a user web or apache or something like that, it depends on the distribution). > If JRuby command-line tools are to be integrated into the regular > command-line ecology, where we don't have to care what language a > program is written in, then I'd expect to run a personal ng-server > from login to logout. or in other words... give the user complete control and let him start the server as he likes. bye blackdrag -- Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou The Groovy Project Tech Lead (http://groovy.codehaus.org) http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/ http://www.g2one.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
