From owner-cvs-etc Mon Oct 27 10:26:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12220 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-etc) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12095; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:24:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net) Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA01070; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:23:22 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:23:20 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: Nate Williams cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd In-Reply-To: <199710271803.LAA00863@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > It's *worse* to change nobody to be effectively 'daemon'. It's alot Why is is worse? Nobody used only by daemons normally. > easier (and better) to give Apache a new user then to make nobody > 'daemon'. (Think NFS, among other things.) Forget about Apache, it simple reveals the bug. Lets talk about tftpd and fingerd conflict. Your suggestion will be make yet another nobody still? > No, nobody means 'nobody'. Apache is a 'daemon', so if that's not > appropriate, create a new user for it. Either that or disable fingerd > on machines where Apache is running. tftpd is daemon too. Lets disable tftpd on fingerd machines. Or vice versa. Or make yet another 100 nousers to satisfy each daemon which need it. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/