From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 17 17:53:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from noao.edu (noao.edu [140.252.1.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E3537B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from regulus.tuc.noao.edu (account grandi [140.252.1.146] verified) by noao.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b5) with ESMTP-TLS id 2225068 for arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:53:27 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:53:27 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Grandi X-X-Sender: grandi@regulus.tuc.noao.edu To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned In-Reply-To: <20011018021143.A53647@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: <20011017174800.V68105-100000@regulus.tuc.noao.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sigh: I've had UID 80 here at NOAO for 18 years (since 4.1BSD days on a VAX). Time for a change! What is the "upper limit" for system UIDs and where is it documented? On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 17:09:37 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Oct 17), Jimmy Olgeni said: > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > > /etc/{passwd,group}? I think about 'pw' command, but it will be > > > > nice if somebody already have working example. > > > > > > I usually borrow from the databases/postgresql pkg-install script, > > > it's nicely done. > > > > > > > I plan to add www:www to default etc directory passwd/group too. > > > > What is the best numerical value, if any, for www UID/GID? > > > > > > What about 80:80? Bind is already 53:53 :o) > > > > The apache13-fp port creates apache:apache at 80:80, so there's a > > precedent for 80:80. I dislike hardcoding the httpd name though; how > > about using www:www and changing the apache13-fp port to match? > > Yes, www:www not for apache only but for _any_ httpd we have in ports. > -- Steve Grandi National Optical Astronomy Observatory/AURA Inc., Tucson AZ USA Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 FAX: +1 520 318-8360 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message