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prevent git-daemon from running as root?

Subject: prevent git-daemon from running as root?

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Joshua N Pritikin· Dec 7, 2005, 05:23 UTC · lore

git-daemon seems to work fine when running as a non-root account.

Maybe it should refuse to start when running as root?

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