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

[Diana Cionoiu]

Thank a lot.
We've just added one more feature when yate runs as a root to setup the 
ulimit to 8096 so it can handle more calls.

Diana

Jens Thiele wrote:
> Diana Cionoiu <diana-liste at voip.null.ro> writes:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I see. So this bug maybe should be closed or changed to a wishlist bug
> requesting some kind of privilege separation¹?
>
> Greetings,
> Jens
>
> ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_separation
>
>
>
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