From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 17 11: 4:17 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from coffee.q9media.com (coffee.q9media.com [216.94.229.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3178037B401; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mike@localhost) by coffee.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9HI6XF72951; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:06:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:06:33 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: Christopher Masto Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20011017140633.B64561@coffee.q9media.com> References: <200110171321.f9HDLrP93078@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011017132055.A32709@netmonger.net> <20011017133420.A64561@coffee.q9media.com> <1003340740.32578.11.camel@lion-around.at.yiff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1003340740.32578.11.camel@lion-around.at.yiff.net>; from chris@netmonger.net on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:45:40PM +0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Masto writes: > On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 14:34, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > No, but enough installations require a www pseudo-user to make this > > change worthwhile. > > Why can't that user be created as needed? I already have an "apache" > user and group on my web servers - I create them when I install Apache. > I also have users on various machines for PostgreSQL, Cyrus, GDM, > NetSaint, MySQL, Courier, Gale, and Minivend, among others. But I don't > suggest that my needs should be added to the FreeBSD base system. The aformentioned software packages would be candidates for specific user accounts in the base system if there was enough of a userbase to justify their inclusion. > What's special about "www"? (Apart from being a horrible > unpronounceable word that's bugged me since it first appeared.) It's a somewhat generic username that's applicable to most web servers. There was a small HEADS-UP sent to -ports and -developers. This really should have went to -arch for discussion as this affects the base system as much as the ports collection and -developers is a private mailing list (designed for administrative uses only!). Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message