Re: [Firebird-devel] root runuser in fb3

2013-09-03 Thread marius adrian popa
Seems the right way , so less privileges = is better On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Alex Peshkoff peshk...@mail.ru wrote: Hello all! In posix builds since FB2.0 we use 'firebird' runuser as default, but support (at least on linux) scripts to switch between 'firebird' and 'root' runusers.

[Firebird-devel] root runuser in fb3

2013-08-30 Thread Alex Peshkoff
Hello all! In posix builds since FB2.0 we use 'firebird' runuser as default, but support (at least on linux) scripts to switch between 'firebird' and 'root' runusers. It's clear that using root as runuser is potential security hole for any system. On the other hand no problems with running