[rt-users] RT 4 - status report

[Jo Rhett]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>> That's good.  Would this change improve the ability to run RT in a
>> virtual server environment, instead of having to pretty much commit  
>> an
>> entire machine to it?   The number of things which "must be done by
>> root" which don't actually need root permissions, and could run under
>> a more limited user is quite large.  But they are difficult to
>> overcome with hacking the source due to assumptions built into the  
>> code.
>
> Such as?
>
> I run RT configured "--with-my-user-group" all the time.


Such as rt-crontool.   I fought through a week of trying to be able to  
run rt-crontool as any user other than root, and it never succeeded.   
If the mason-cache stuff was created using a consistent userid then we  
could run rt-crontool as that user.

In a perfect world, I want to install RT as a single user, then run a  
separate HTTP instance as that same user, so that RT is running within  
a single user account.  I'm mostly there on a dev install, but I've  
already had to modify far too many files for it to be a simple patch.

-- 
Jo Rhett
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