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Anope Support => 1.8.x/1.7.x Support (Read Only) => Topic started by: alex336 on April 24, 2006, 02:46:29 AM

Title: Root Super User ??
Post by: alex336 on April 24, 2006, 02:46:29 AM: WARNING: You are currently running Anope as the root superuser. Anope does not require root privileges to run, and it is discouraged that you run Anope as the root superuser.

Way i got this message ??

Please help me :) Thinx :)
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Post by: Dave Robson on April 24, 2006, 08:15:09 AM: your running anope as the user "root" - there is no reason to do this.
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Post by: alex336 on April 24, 2006, 11:11:01 PM: Yeha but i cannot create another account ? Its possible to disable this error ?
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Post by: Jan Milants on April 24, 2006, 11:43:36 PM: a root user that can't create another accound... that s a new one :-/

and no that error can't be disabled unles by editing the source code which is not supported and which will make you lose all support

[Edited on 24-4-2006 by Viper]
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Post by: Pieter Bootsma on April 25, 2006, 06:05:45 AM: It's a hardcoded error which indeed can't be removed. If you know what you're doing, you should be able to ignore this message. It's mainly targetted at the inexperienced people who don't realise that running anope as root brings a serious security risk.
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Post by: alex336 on April 25, 2006, 10:19:12 PM: I just want to launch Anope's services and i don't care about security risks of if you know who to make another account with SSH Root power ?
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Post by: lonewolf on April 25, 2006, 10:35:21 PM: Take a look there:

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/adduser8.html (http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/adduser8.html)
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Post by: alex336 on April 25, 2006, 10:44:03 PM: Well i dont see anything on the power of the user to add ... You know the command ??
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Post by: Jan Milants on April 25, 2006, 11:47:09 PM: he pasted a link to the commmand... no need to specify power or so, there s only one root user on linux, any regular useraccount will do

for example "adduser -p pass user"

[Edited on 25-4-2006 by Viper]
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Post by: alex336 on April 26, 2006, 01:45:50 AM: Warning: unable to open log file services.log: Permission denied
Unfortunately it seems Anope did not start successfully
This error has been logged in your Anope Log file
Located in /home/legalpir/anope/logs/
This may help you diagnose the problem
Further help may be available from http://www.anope.org/
alex336@vps1401 [/home/legalpir/anope]#

:S
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Post by: silverstorm on April 26, 2006, 09:42:01 AM: Did you change the owner of the files? I bet, the owner of the files is still root. you can change it with chown user.group file(s).