On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:21:17PM +0200, Jesper Wallin wrote:
> Hey..
>
> When I started with Linux/Unix security, the first thing I learned was "do
> not run a daemon as root as long isn't really require it".. well, when I use
> irssi as my primary irc-client which not has any built-in detach function i
> use screen instead. When a run a "ps -aux" it shows me screen is runned by
> root!?

Erm..

# ls -l `which screen`
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 266576 Mar 15 04:40 /usr/local/bin/screen

Read the documentation about why screen needs to be setuid root and
what will break if you remove it.

Kris

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