[Nut-upsdev] Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r731

[Arjen de Korte]

Henning Brauer wrote:

> why don't you do it the other way round; open the listening sockets 
> after dropping privileges (and thus lose privileged ports, but you're 
> on the safe side), and if really anybody cries later because he is 
> using a low port and discovers that doesn't work any more, reconsider 
> adding the button.

Although I don't think NUT should outright prevent people from doing
stupid things (we allow them to run everything as root too, for a good
reason), I think there is a lot of merit in the above.

Best regards, Arjen