From c95b30de64c5d57c48ba75152c43bb102bfc20e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Sweeting <git@sweeting.me>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 01:56:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Updated Security Overview (markdown)

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 Security-Overview.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Security-Overview.md b/Security-Overview.md
index 7e786c7..0948d94 100644
--- a/Security-Overview.md
+++ b/Security-Overview.md
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ chown -R archivebox:archivebox /home/archivebox
 sudo -u archivebox ./archive ...
 ```
 
+If you absolutely must run it as root for some reason, a footgun is provided: you can set [`ALLOW_ROOT=True`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#ALLOW_ROOT) via environment variable or in your ArchiveBox.conf file.
+
 <img src="https://i.imgur.com/ca1he6I.png" width="40px" align="right"/>
 
 ## Output Folder