From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 20: 9:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail-green.research.att.com (H-135-207-30-103.research.att.com [135.207.30.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E81C37B403; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D9E1E048; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA09907; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:09:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id UAA13215; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110190309.UAA13215@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: sean@chittenden.org Subject: Re: UID proposal for ports (apache, postfix, squid, postgres)... Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org References: <20011017155854.A43168@nagual.pp.ru> <26334.1003400552@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20011018214551.A23964@ns2.freenix.org> <20011018131556.D54066@rand.tgd.net> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:09:07 -0700 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2j/makemail 2.9b 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 >The port (Apache, postfix, squid, etc) creates their necessary UID/GIDs >using reserved ID numbers that are hard coded (ex: apache == www == 80). Isn't this how it works [or, at least, is documented to work] now? (e.g. see section 15.15 of the porter's handbook.) Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message