Date: 18 Oct 2001 14:45:04 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <xzpsnchdsmn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <28967.1003407521@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <28967.1003407521@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> writes: > So do you propose to do away with nobody as the username under which to > run daemons? Nobody has never been the username under which to run daemons. It is a special user that is not supposed to own any files or processes. It is also magic in NIS and NFS (though NFS at least lets you choose a different magic user). It owns the locate database because the periodic scripts run locate.updatedb as nobody (so it won't see files that aren't supposed to be visible for everyone) but don't take care to chown the database afterwards. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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