# prevent git-daemon from running as root?

1 messages from 2005-12-07 to 2005-12-07. Participants: Joshua N Pritikin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2763

## Joshua N Pritikin, 2005-12-07 05:23

Subject: prevent git-daemon from running as root?
Message-ID: <20051207052312.GE10371@always.joy.eth.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051207052312.GE10371%40always.joy.eth.net

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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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