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

 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
 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.

I kind of figured it must be a setup item I missed in sbbs.ini

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