From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 18 10:20: 2 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7867D37B403; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IHJoA68179; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:19:50 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:19:50 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: John Baldwin Cc: Mike Barcroft , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Christopher Masto Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20011018211949.B68031@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20011017140633.B64561@coffee.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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 On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:41:36 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > I request that the www user and group be backed out. If we had a web server in > the base system, this might be different (like the bind user and the presently > non-existent but potential sendmail/smtp/mail user), but since web servers are > currently all in ports, the ports install is where the user add belongs. Look, we already have "pop" user in the system under the same conditions and you don't complain for years. The second thing is that it will be easy to transfer web server from machine to machine or run in NFS'ed environment for single uid case. Picking random UID produce nightmare for all of that. The third thing that we almost have Apache in the system, at least at sysinstall level which especially tuned for it. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message