Subject: [netatalk-admins] Feature Suggestion: AFP/TCP running as user, not root
From: Eugene Cohen (eugene@cegt201.bradley.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 13 1997 - 10:50:10 EST
As AFP 2.2 compliance (which adds TCP/IP support) starts getting folded
into netatalk, there should not be the necessity for afpd to run as root.
In the "old days" AppleTalk was the only transport, so the daemons had to
run as root to access the raw network hardware.
It should be possible now, if afpd is able run only supporting TCP/IP
connections, to have the daemon run as something other than root. The only
change that would need to be made would be support for perhaps a custom
passwd file since many systems now support shadow authentication and only
the root account can read the shadow file. Is the addition of the ability
to run as a non-root user feasible given the source base?
-Eugene
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