Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

[Ethan Blanton]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom:
> In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:17 -0500, Chad Walstrom 
> <address@hidden> said:
> > There's the Postfix way of launching new services, a master server.
> > usher could make requests of the master server to launch a new 'mtn
> > serve' instance as a given user.  i.e. The 'gnats' user to launch 'mtn
> > serve' on the GNATS project's gnats.mtn database.
> 
> I'm sorry, why can't usher *be* the master server?  Adding a master
> server in between would just add a layer of complexity that gives
> nothing extra in return.

I for one would much rather the listening daemon didn't have to run
with root privileges, such that it could execute servers as other
users...

Ethan

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