Bug#396452: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#396452: Run cron script under root.

[Charles Fry]

> Simple workaround of security problem is run cron script as root. Thus
> apache statistics will be easily parsed and resulted files will be created
> as www-data visiable and usable from cgi script.

Hi Olleg,

Can you please indicate which security problem you are referring to?

In general, running scripts as root should be avoided as that is itself
a security problem.

thanks,
Charles

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