From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 22 18: 9:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.siteplus.com (aurora.siteplus.com [66.129.2.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200CE37B41A for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from veager.jwweeks.com (pcp01076331pcs.midval01.tn.comcast.net [68.59.219.194]) by aurora.siteplus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA91449; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:09:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@jwweeks.com) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:09:27 -0500 (EST) From: jim To: "Alastair D'Silva" Cc: "'Simon'" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Questions about Apache In-Reply-To: <002801c1d20c$42b9d500$3200a8c0@riker> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Alastair D'Silva wrote: > The port by default runs as nobody/nogroup, but I prefer to make to make > a www:www user/group for it, since it is bad practice to have files > owned by nobody. I might be missing something here, but I can't see a lot of difference. Both users nobody, and www are un-privileged users. Other than uids being either bellow 100 of above. What difference could it possibly make? I still think removing the pass phrase and chmoding the file 600 is probably the safest thing to do, other than allays being around for a reboot. -- Jim Weeks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message