Bitlbee should not need to run as root. Bitlbee does not benefit from root priviledges in any way. Now that Gentoo has an init script for bitlbee it should be altered to have an own user to run as. Even when connecting to the bitlbee server it gives the following warning: "<root> You're running BitlBee as root. Why?". I think /var/lib/bitlbee is the only directory for which the owner needs to be changed if bitlbee was run under a different user. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I'll look into fixing this tomorrow or Friday. What version are you using?
Great. I'm using 0.80-r1, which is flagged x86. 0.81 was apparently released on bitlbee.org yesterday.
Fixed the init script in bitlbee-0.80-r2. The user is now nobody, similar to how it's setup in the xinetd.d conf file. Let me know if you have any issues, and thanks for the bug :)
There is one problem with 0.80-r2: root@kuu:/usr/portage/net-im/bitlbee# /etc/init.d/bitlbeed start * Starting bitlbeed... start-stop-daemon: group `nobody' not found * Failed to start bitlbeed
What version of sys-apps/baselayout are you using?
1.8.6.11 as i'm using ~x86.
Have you removed the nobody group from /etc/group? baselayout-1.8.6.11 contails the nobody group by default.
I re-emerged baselayout and now the init script seems to be working well. The problem must have been something with glibc as I updated it yesterday. Thanks for your time and the fix.
No problem. Glad everything works now :)
