application should drop privileges before starting services

[baris]

This is currently what application does and causes background services to start as root.

                self.start_services()
                pid.write(self.pid_file, append=True)

                # Drop privileges
                uid = pwd.getpwnam(Settings.get("username", "www-data"))[2]
                os.setuid(uid)

                tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

[mrtyler]

Looks like you reverted pr #41. Should this be re-opened?

[milki]

Yes, it should be reopened. I didn't see a button to do that.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Tyler Roscoe notifications@github.comwrote:

Looks like you reverted pr #41#41.
Should this be re-opened?

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