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Running Tomcat MySQL and Apache under a group

I am trying to set up a web server at home using Ubuntu, but prefer my bash scripts to be platform agnostic hence why I am asking here. I also dislike apt-get everything. I am trying to create a ...
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For an init.d startup script, what is the ideal user to use as the owner of that process

Everyone says that running processes as root is bad, since it defeats the security and privileges model. But what user should be used to run a startup process? Is it really necessary to create a new ...
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How do I hide/anonymise/defend a computer when on hostile networks?

I connect to a lot of open networks when I'm pootling around. I'm fairly careful to VPN home for anything important but that's not really my boggle. The laptop runs several services (nfs, dev http ...