Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Feature Suggestion: AFP/TCP running as user, not root
From: Eugene Cohen (eugene@cegt201.bradley.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 14 1997 - 10:00:35 EST
Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de> wrote:
>>What I would like to do is to write a simple program on my Mac that would
>>send an rsh command to a server to start afpd, log in and mount the volume,
>>and later send another rsh command to stop afpd once I have logged out.
>>(The sysadmins usually don't like us to keep daemon processes running all
>>the time). I think this could be valuable to users out there. See what
>>I'm getting at? Would this be too difficult to implement?
>
>So what you want is cheat on your sysops :-)
>
>I think this could be done, but it might involve some serious code changes,
>and for me this isn't worthwile.
I know my "sysops" won't mind if I don't keep the daemon running all the time.
If I had time, I'd try to make the changes to the sources myself. Maybe
someday I'll actually have the time.
-Eugene
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