On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Seth Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
> #3  The server runs as root, even though it only needs the privilege to
> bind to low-numbered ports. The server should drop privileges once it
> has bound to the socket.
>
> Please create a user for pollen; please either launch the server as the
> correct user and use non-privileged ports or add the ability to change
> users, so that the server does not need to run as root.

Done.  Created a pollen user, added capabilities to the binary, and
launch the daemon as the pollen user.

Committed revision 175.

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