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| - | Usually, clapf listens on the localhost, so it cannot be accessed directly. | + | Usually, clapf listens on the localhost, so it cannot be accessed directly. It listens on a high port (>1024), and it does not require any special privileges. By default it switches to user 'clapf' after it's started. You may run it as a different user by setting the username parameter. |
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| - | As clapf listens on a high port (>1024), and it does not require any special privileges. By default it switches to user 'clapf' after it's started. You may run it as a different user by setting the username parameter. | + | |
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| - | Because the clapf.conf file probably contains sensitive data, such as MySQL credentials, it's very important that it shouldn't be read by any other user than clapf. | + | Because the clapf.conf file contains sensitive data, such as MySQL credentials, it's very important that it shouldn't be read by any other user than clapf. |