[Moosefs-users] Fwd: Caveats to running MFS under root

[Stas O. <sta...@gm...>]

Sorry, forwarding to list as well.

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Hi.


> Generally speaking, MooseFS should not be run as a user nobody. If user
> nobody has some other services running and if somebody gets  control over
> one service, it can interfere other services run on the same user. We
> recommend just creating a user mfs and a group mfs.
>
>
This makes sense.


Laurent, that should be a good addition to that RPM ;).

Maybe we also should consider placing a script, which would assign proper
permissions to selected data folders.

The master and logger can actually pre-format and use the /var/mfs directory
they are using today.

Regards.