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Adopt dedicated 'rockstor' user for systemd services #2700

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phillxnet opened this issue Oct 14, 2023 · 0 comments
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Adopt dedicated 'rockstor' user for systemd services #2700

phillxnet opened this issue Oct 14, 2023 · 0 comments

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In line with reviewing our general good practice, it is proposed that we establish a dedicated system user, with specifically limited rights, and instruct our systemd services to use this user where-ever possible to run our various services. We do, via our systemd initiated services, manage many privileged areas of the system, and so will likely have to award certain capabilities to our services/user: but along with the following issues:

These escalated privileges can be explicitly formalised and constrained to exactly what is required and no more.

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