Re: running other than root.

[Fredrik Dahlberg <fd@xxxxxx>]

Root is the only user that can use chroot(), so if you want to use that feature
you have to start ircd as root. Otherwise you can set IRC_UID and IRC_GID in
config.h and ircd will setuid() to that uid after it has chrooted.

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Rawle Frank wrote:

> Can you also document starting ircd other than root. i have RHL 6.2 and running ircd. it works fine but i have to start is as root and it stays running as root. any other way i get permission denied or cannot chroot to /home/ircd. yes i tried changing ownership and gave chmod 777 on all. i did make a user called ircd.
> 

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