Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
#1305 closed defect (wontfix)
fam needs a discussion of fam.conf
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 6.2.0 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
By default, fam installs /etc/fam.conf that has th eline:
untrusted_user = nobody
If user nobody does not exist, famd fails on startup. The book should create a special system user, famd, and update the /etc/fam.conf file to use that user.
Also, for security, local_only ought to be changes to true.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
| Milestone: | future → 6.1 |
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| Owner: | changed from to |
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:4 by , 21 years ago
| Milestone: | 6.1 → 6.2 |
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comment:5 by , 21 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Overcome by events. fam has been replaced by gamin
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FYI, there is a new package from GNOME gamin that is API compatible with fam. See <http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/> for more info.