From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 5: 2: 1 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 C5B3437B401; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IC1rG63790; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:01:53 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:01:53 +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: <20011018160152.C63537@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20011018155749.A63537@nagual.pp.ru> <28803.1003406442@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28803.1003406442@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 14:00:42 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > The gain is not running Apache with access priviledges it must not have, > > including read access. > > What files does user nobody have on files that user www won't? Nobody is NFS special. Www is not. > > 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. > > In which case, what have you achieved? No wrong accesses in NFS case. -- 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