Unprivileged user?

Per Andreas Buer perbu at linpro.no
Wed Apr 16 09:38:30 CEST 2008


Poul-Henning Kamp skrev:
> In message <7xd4oqe4c2.fsf at iostat.linpro.no>, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen writes:
>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:01:17 -0700, Ricardo Newbery <ric at digitalmarbles.com> said:
>>
>>> In Varnish, does the less-privileged user need access to anything?
>> After it has dropped root privileges, it needs at least:
>>
>> * Open new network connections (no problem unless you use MAC or a
>>  uid-matching firewall)
> 
> No, it accepts them only.

Does the privilegded prosess talk to the origin servers?

> (..)
> 
> Please figure out how varnish really works before you acuse us of
> being incompetent.

Please figure out who is calling you incompetent before you start 
accusing people of accusing you of being incompetent (puh!). ssm was 
only trying to be helpful - all though I can see he probably failed in 
being that.  :-)


Per.



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