Re: security holes

[Fredrik Dahlberg <Fredrik.Dahlberg@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Tom Kwong wrote:

> I am trying to get ircd running on my linux box.  Some people told me
> that ircd has many security holes.  Is that true?  And, if so, where can
> I find the details about that?  Thanks!

There is no reason for running ircd as root. If you use #define CHROOTDIR,
you should use IRC_UID as well. Even if there was a security hole in ircd,
they couldn't use it for anything if you did this.

/D