From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 5:16:17 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 9AB6537B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9ICG9J64002; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:16:10 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:16:09 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Yarema Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <20011018161609.A63967@nagual.pp.ru> References: <28552.1003405786@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <864670000.1003407169@volyn.dppl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <864670000.1003407169@volyn.dppl.net> 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 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message