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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users running a scr in rc3.d not as root, can i? Post 31702 by RTM on Tuesday 12th of November 2002 10:50:08 AM
Old 11-12-2002
As far as the question of advantages/disadvantages of having a process started up as non-root, many times the different SQL processes start as either root or as their own user (Sybase or Oracle). The Sybase folks (half of them) know that they don't need root to run and set up their scripts with a su to the sybase user. Oracle folks almost always do this. Our other Sybase folks like to run Sybase from root - then they need root to work on their servers. This was started because someone many years ago didn't care about security - just wanted to get things working. Although it's been proven and implemented on some servers to remove the root/Sybase connection, getting it pushed across all servers is a hassle.

There is no disadvantage to my knowledge but the advantage is not having another process that could be hacked and leave someone with root on a server.
 

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DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Sybase::ASE::NoBindVars(3)	User Contributed Perl Documentation  DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Sybase::ASE::NoBindVars(3)

NAME
DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Sybase::ASE::NoBindVars - Storage::DBI subclass for Sybase ASE without placeholder support DESCRIPTION
If you're using this driver then your version of Sybase or the libraries you use to connect to it do not support placeholders. You can also enable this driver explicitly using: my $schema = SchemaClass->clone; $schema->storage_type('::DBI::Sybase::ASE::NoBindVars'); $schema->connect($dsn, $user, $pass, \%opts); See the discussion in "Using ? Placeholders & bind parameters to $sth->execute" in DBD::Sybase for details on the pros and cons of using placeholders. One advantage of not using placeholders is that "select @@identity" will work for obtaining the last insert id of an "IDENTITY" column, instead of having to do "select max(col)" in a transaction as the base Sybase driver does. When using this driver, bind variables will be interpolated (properly quoted of course) into the SQL query itself, without using placeholders. The caching of prepared statements is also explicitly disabled, as the interpolation renders it useless. AUTHORS
See "CONTRIBUTORS" in DBIx::Class. LICENSE
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.2 2011-05-23 DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Sybase::ASE::NoBindVars(3)
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