Comment 1 for bug 327819

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote : Re: Main Inclusion Report/Request

Before this MIR continues, the daemon should be made to run as a non-root user. There doesn't appear to be any reason for this (kernel logs available via group adm, dbus can be done in other ways). Having the root user performing outbound network communication is cause for concern.