By Attila SATAN
I installed node as described in this tutorial.
I’m going to let users upload and download. That makes me thing " is it safe to run node as root?"
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Hi, <br> <br> <br>Short answer No… <br> <br>Long answer <br>Running anything that uploads or downloads files as root is never a good idea as with root you can do all sorts of nasty things if the js scripts your are running via node are ever exploited. Just a side not when allowing a user to upload files always make sure the files are uploaded into an non-webfacing dictionary as otherwise an exploit could be uploaded and executed very easily. <br> <br>Hope this helps
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