Re: Raspberry PI synchronet problems
  By: KK4QBN to Nightfox on Wed Feb 14 2018 04:14 pm

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

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

sudo is a program that runs a program as root in Linux (sudo is short for
"superuser do").  That's my understanding of it, unless there's more to it.

Nightfox

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