[naviserver-tracker] [ naviserver-Feature Requests-1120023 ] Allow to start server under root privilges

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Feature Requests item #1120023, was opened at 2005-02-10 14:30
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Zoran Vasiljevic (vasiljevic)
Assigned to: Zoran Vasiljevic (vasiljevic)
Summary: Allow to start server under root privilges

Initial Comment:
Before all of you freak out, read please :-) 
 
Currently the server will just complain if you  
attempt to start it as root. However, we do need 
to do this. Our app is actually a backup/archive 
and server-synchronize product and it needs to 
access all files on the server and do something 
with them.  For this to work, I had to manually 
disable checking for user/group of 0/0 during the 
startup.  
 
Now, my idea is to allow compile-time option  
which would control this, like for example 
--enable-rootuser or similar. I think Apache build 
allows you to do this (at least it did when I worked 
with Apache for the last time, about 6 years ago). 
Default would be to *not* allow server to be started 
as root, which is what we have now.  
This can be 
#ifdef ALLOW_ROOT_USER 
#endif 
at one place in the nsmain.c.  
 
Any thoughts? 
 
 

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