From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 4:58: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7630037B407; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 04:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IBvqJ63674; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:57:52 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:57:50 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <20011018155749.A63537@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20011018153954.B63215@nagual.pp.ru> <28489.1003405698@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28489.1003405698@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@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 13:48:18 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > I don't attempt to deal with this area or attempt to solve it this way. I > > issue just _warning_ saying that webmasters which use non-wrapped cgi-bin > > writes shoud convert their directories to group www after Apache change. > > Well, I still don't see the gain, but it's always difficult to argue > against changes you don't think are necessary. :-( The gain is not running Apache with access priviledges it must not have, including read access. Please also note that running non-wrapped write CGI's is not something illegal but the way officially documented in Apache, so it _will_ happens from time to time in anycase. [Really you don't need suexec for single user WWW server, moreover running suexec is often performance killer.] -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message