Re: [Dgwebminmodule-users] Warning - running as root ... message

[Adam K. <fu...@fu...>]

On 03/11/2011 03:03 AM, Roger Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:57 +1100, Roger Morton wrote:
>    
>> So I am very new to webmin and DG. And I am confused as to what the
>> "Warning - running as root(superuser) may cause new files to be
>> innaccessible by production DansGuardian" that appears in webmin under
>> DG means.
>>
>> What is running as root? My webmin session or my dansguardian
>> application?
>>
>> Is this really a problem?
>>
>> How, do I fix it?
>>
>>      
> Well I figured out that my DG is running as the dansguardian user. So
> this message must refer to the webmin session I guess.
>
> How do control what user webmin runs as? I would have thought it would
> kinda run under the user you logged into Webmin as.
>
> How I know I am running DG as the dansguardian user.
> Change the /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf to say
> daemonuser = 'dansguardian'
> daemongroup = 'dansguardian'
> and then when I start DG it says "Error opening/creating log file.
> (check ownership and access rights).
> I am running as dansguardian and I am trying to
> open /var/log/dansguardian//access.log"
>
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I am looking at fixing this in a future version of the module. The 
original fear was that creating new files from within Webmin, while 
doing so as root, would possibly make the files unreadable by 
DansGuardian. I am looking at alternate ways of handling this.

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Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy