You misunderstood the grandparent's comment and replied to a confused parent. The application does not need to run as root, however even when it runs as a norma

You misunderstood the grandparent's comment and replied to a confused parent. The application does not need to run as root, however even when it runs as a normal user, it generally has full read/write access to the application database. Which is a problem that is not easily solvable.