The yate ebuild in portage runs the yate process as root, this shouldn't be necessary and it runs fine as a normal unprivileged user. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge yate 2. /etc/init.d/yate start Actual Results: yate runs as root Expected Results: run as an unprivileged user
Created attachment 212654 [details, diff] patch to make yate run as the user yate instead of root
Packages have been removed from tree. dev-libs/pwlib net-libs/openh323 <=net-libs/opal-2.2.11 <=net-voip/ekiga-2.0.12 <=net-voip/gnugk-2.2.8 <=net-voip/openmcu-2.2.1 <=net-voip/yate-2.0.0
As far as I know, there is a maintainer. And this is still relevant.