Re: [ptp-user] remote c++ project

[Chris Recoskie <recoskie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is because if you want to use a shared daemon that all users connect to, then it must run as root in order to be able to fork off each individual JVM instance as each user connects, because that JVM instance must be run with the user's security permissions.

Most daemons (e.g. SSH) run as root. This is not that unusual.

If you are really that worried about it, all the RDT source is open source and publicly available in CVS for you to inspect however you wish.

If you are still worried about it, you can have each user manually launch the server themselves (without the daemon) and connect to it that way, but it's far less convenient.

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Chris Recoskie
Team Lead, IBM CDT and RDT
IBM Toronto

Yevgeny Shifrin ---03/21/2010 02:46:05 PM---Hi, I have a standard use case. I would like to run eclipse on Windows, all sources / compilation re

From:	Yevgeny Shifrin <Yevgeny.Shifrin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	"ptp-user@xxxxxxxxxxx" <ptp-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	03/21/2010 02:46 PM
Subject:	[ptp-user] remote c++ project
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Hi,

I have a standard use case. I would like to run eclipse on Windows, all sources / compilation reside on linux server. I am considering installing RDT on my company linux server. According to RDT installation and usage instruction, RDT should be ran with root user in order it could do authentication. This seems very problematic to me from security aspects. It seems very problematic running a code I am not familiar with on my company production server as a root user. Could someone please clarify why RDT should be ran with a root user? Is there any solution to this issue?

Thanks a lot,
Yevgeny_______________________________________________
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