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echo: mystic
to: Matt Bedynek
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2017-10-07 08:03:28
subject: mis2

Hello Matt,

On Fri Oct 06 2017 19:11:44, Matt Bedynek wrote to Tony Langdon:

 MB>>> It removes the busy file but the process never stops running.  I
 MB>>> would figure that as long as I try to stop it as the same user
 MB>>> it is running I should not need to issue the stop as super user?

 TL>> I always start and stop as the superuser.

 MB> I haven't tested this but since I dont see a configurable option to
 MB> fork to unprivleged user that this means always running as root.  In
 MB> the "industry" this is viewed as not good.  What I do is
configure my
 MB> instances to listen on non-privleged ports (i.e. 2222) then forward 22
 MB> to that.

Mystic automatically forks to the unpriviledged user that the executable is
owned by when started as root.

Regards,
Nick

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