On Wed, Dec 11, 2002, Vinod Kutty wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote: >> Also theoretically, >> you could simply remove the crontab changing code if your users promise to >> never use the dependent rc.<package> sections. > > Er ... just to be clear, since I don't have a lot of experience with this: > You're referring to the %daily, %weekly, etc. sections in each > rc.d/rc.<package> file that wouldn't be called if the crontab stuff was > disabled, right? > Yes, I'm referring to the %daily, %weekly, and %monthly rc sections.
> Yes, I understand that (about building). The question is (and I realize > you may not be in a position to answer this) after building, for the > install, is there anything within the openpkg root dir or below that would > be negatively impacted by running as non-root? I installed as the user > 'opkg' and it warned me that various steps were not being performed > (/etc/shells, user + group creation, etc.), which I knew about from > reading through the .sh script, but what's not clear is the impact within > the openpkg directory. > Ralf cleared this up I think. In short, as long as you: o Don't use the crontab periodic sections o Don't use packages that rely on the '-r' user/group o Don't use an OpenPKG installed shell for OS functions like chpass(1) o Don't expect your enabled OpenPKG daemons to autostart on booting the OS then you should be okay in building, installing, and using OpenPKG with no special privileges. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Development Team, Application Services Cable & Wireless Deutschland GmbH
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