Bug#469729: yate should not be run as root?

Diana Cionoiu diana-liste at voip.null.ro
Fri Mar 7 16:21:08 UTC 2008


Hello,

It's important for Yate to run as root because it setups a higher 
priority for the threads of the voice. Since this is a very important 
issue for a voice server i recommend to keep it running as root.

Diana

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:03:28PM +0100, Jens Thiele wrote:
>
>   
>> I think yate daemon should not be started as root?
>> I propose to add "--chuid $YATE_USER" to the start-stop-daemon options.
>>     
>
> I asked some people in #yate and from what I understand, this means that 
> yate will not be able to run with a higher scheduling priority. Thus 
> it would potentially result in a lower sound 
>
>   






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