Package: papercut
Severity: serious
Tags: security

It's a bad idea to run any kind of daemon, which is accessible from the
outside, as root. While papercut needs to start as root to bind to the
nntp port, I can't see any reason why it should not drop it's privileges
to handle requests.

-- 
Bernd Zeimetz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                         <http://bzed.de/>



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