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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:16:09 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Yarema <yds@dppl.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned
Message-ID:  <20011018161609.A63967@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <864670000.1003407169@volyn.dppl.net>
References:  <28552.1003405786@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <864670000.1003407169@volyn.dppl.net>

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:12:49 -0400, Yarema wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm kinda lost here too.  I understand that nobody:nogroup should not 
> own any files.  I do not understand that 'Apache abuses nobody just running 
> under it' by gaining 'access to priveledges it must not have.'  What 
> exactly are these priveledges 'it must not have?'  privileges to write 
> files?  What is the proper use for nobody:nogroup?

Any priviledges, read/write/etc. Nobody is internal NFS user means 'root'.

> That may be true about suexec.  But why is nobody:nogroup any less or more 
> equal than any other group for this purpose?  I always thought it an 

Because nobody is NFS special, while any other user - not.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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