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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2015-02-17T21:41:27Z"
+ content="""
+I would not recommend running the assistant as root. Any security issue
+would escalate the root access; any bug could result in some root level
+damage to system.
+
+Of course, I don't know of any such security issues or bugs. If I did, I'd
+be fixing them.
+
+On my system, /usr/local is managed by group staff. It seems much safer to
+make the assistant be run by some non-root user who is in the staff group.
+"""]]