Re: Raspberry PI synchronet problems
  By: Nightfox to Denn on Wed Feb 14 2018 09:37:06

 De>> I will look into it, the setup runs fine but I was assuming I could
 De>> run the Console using sudo but I am missing something I guess.

 Ni> You could run the console with sudo.. But I think it would be generally
 Ni> bad practice to run public-facing servers as root. If someone somehow
 Ni> gains shell access to your system through the server, you wouldn't want
 Ni> them having root privileges due to the process running as root.

afaik, SUDO only binds the ports, then the software is handed back to the user
specified in sbbs.ini or cmdline.

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Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
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