On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote: > Anoop wrote: > > Test 2: ERROR > > -------- > > > > Akonadi was started as root > > Details: Running Internet-facing applications as root/administrator > > exposes you to many security risks. MySQL, used by this Akonadi > > installation, will not allow itself to run as root, to protect you from > > these risks. > > BTW, I think this check is completely bogus and I think we should patch > Akonadi to just work as root. > > The justification given is completely bullshit since MySQL does NOT listen > on a TCP/IP port (only on a local Unix socket accessible only to root) when > configured the way Akonadi configures it. So you're NOT running an > Internet- > facing application as root. And it's easy for Akonadi to make it just work, > just put user=root into the config file if run as root. > > Kevin Kofler > > Hi Kevin, Thanks a lot!!!. But during all this time, I reverted back to SC-4.4.4. I will try ot this, once Fedora gets SC-4.5. Regards, Anoop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100703/c58b4881/attachment.html
