<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Excuse me; can anyone explain why it's necessary to send kernel log messages through dd, rather than letting klogd pick them up directly? Debian doesn't do it that way.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">Other than "it lets us run it as user klogd", which isn't a reason in and of itself.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">Why is klogd a particular security issue? What possible benefit is there to running a dd process as root instead of simply running klogd as root, or having klogd start as root and then drop privileges?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">Cheers.</font></div></body></html>