Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> that is actually true...</p><p>Unless someone provides a program with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/root" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>root</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/privilegues" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>privilegues</span></a> it can only mess up the $HOME of the user account which it runs under.</p><p>This is why the default config for servers like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apache</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PostgreSQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PostgreSQL</span></a> to literally be run as <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/daemons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>daemons</span></a> or rather <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/systemD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>systemD</span></a> services under dedicaded user accounts, so a webserver - even when hacked - can't f**k up the system.</p><p>It's part of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KISS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KISS</span></a>-Approach to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Users" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Users</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Groups</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>POSIX</span></a> and is supplemented with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AppArmour" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AppArmour</span></a>...</p>