On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:03:15PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:11:18PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > irc: > > > > > > HELP: Why does an irc daemon need its own static user and group? > > > > Because no one wants to trust it? :) > > > > It doesn't. Of course, removnig them is tricky. > > This is a bug in ircd. It setuid()s itself to a given UID on startup, > if started as root, but doesn't know how to look up a name to get that > UID - the UID is actually set at compile time. > > It does not need a uid. The correct solution is to #undef IRC_UID in > config.h, which will cause it to error and exit if started as root. It > should then be started from an init.d script that runs it as a > suitable user, which then need not be static.
ircu has proven more or less crap anyway; IMHO ircd should be a virtual package provided by bahamut, hybrid, ircd and dancer-ircd. :) d -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Nuke> "can NE1 help me aim nuclear weaponz????? /MSG ME!!"
