From: Python Applications Packaging Team Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 15:07:57 +0200 Subject: user-service MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit 1980b7cb4239463b581579cc39480774d3e2d2fe Author: Antoine Beaupré Date: Mon Sep 12 12:01:44 2016 -0400 run daemon as the irker user (Close: #832758) this is an improvement upon the default .service file. it requires a irker user to be created, something which is automatically handled by the debian package, but should be handled by other distributions when deploying the .service file. there are obvious dangers in running irkerd as root: a compromise would be catastrophic, and since it runs on public servers that are traditionnally pretty hostile (IRC), it seems critical that rights of the daemon be limited. --- irkerd.service | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/irkerd.service b/irkerd.service index 74e9126..2318f54 100644 --- a/irkerd.service +++ b/irkerd.service @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Requires=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/irkerd +User=irker [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target