games user and group

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Wed Mar 1 17:36:29 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:20 -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> > id personally suggest to treat gamedaemons like other daemons and
> > create seperate system users for the game server processes.
> > A server is a server. Functionality differs but is rather irrelevant
> > in my eyes regarding the system users for the services.
> 
> I won't argue that it would be more secure, but couldn't security also
> be accomplished with an appropriate set of selinux policies?

Given multiple possible solutions to a security problem, the simplest
solution is preferred.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs




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