[Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#396452: can't run as root

[Charles Fry]

The security hole of running the cron scripts as root is a matter of
privilege escalation. One should never run a script as root that could
be run with lower privileges, as a bug in the script could lead to a
root exploit.

Your point, in general, is well taken, but the ideal solution is not
obvious to me.

Charles

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