Why do some oninit process's run as root?

Probably because they're being started on your server by a script in /etc/init.d at boot-up. david.tamburin wrote in message <7g4reg$g9r$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Hello all, >Why do some oninit process's run as root? >As everyone know running anything as root is a security issue on unix >systems. >Is there any way to run all process's as informix? > >Thanks in advance >david.tamburin@protegrity.com >

Well, the reason that they run as root is because the shared memory segments have an owner of root. We don't want non-authorized folks being able to attach to that. Only the shared memory message segments have a non-root ID. Also, in order to do many of the security clearance things, you need to be root. david.tamburin wrote: > Hello all, > Why do some oninit process's run as root? > As everyone know running anything as root is a security issue on unix > systems. > Is there any way to run all process's as informix? > > Thanks in advance > david.tamburin@protegrity.com

Hello all, Why do some oninit process's run as root? As everyone know running anything as root is a security issue on unix systems. Is there any way to run all process's as informix? Thanks in advance david.tamburin@protegrity.com

david.tamburin wrote in message <7g4reg$g9r$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Hello all, >Why do some oninit process's run as root? >As everyone know running anything as root is a security issue on unix >systems. >Is there any way to run all process's as informix? > >Thanks in advance >david.tamburin@protegrity.com > Many reasons. e.g. when you are connecting to server, you have to provide username/password, and if you have /etc/shadow file with encrypted passwords, then ONLY root can read /etc/shadow to examine if password is OK.