Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:31:43 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> In-Reply-To: <p05111704b99db21ae76e@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05111704b99db21ae76e@[128.113.24.47]>
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> > > do we have a maintainer for the used UIDs in the porters hanbook?
> >>
> > > If yes: I need the next free UID (92) for the soon to be committed
> > > port 'www/interchange':
> > > interch:*:92:92:Interchange user:${PREFIX}/interchange:/sbin/nologin
> >
> >There's no maintainer: you claim a UID by committing to that file.
> >If someone is already using the UID and forgot to commit it - well,
> >they lose.
>
> As a side thought here, note that we're seeing a trend to create a
> userid for any network-services, where the UID is the same as the
> port number of the service (uid 22 for sshd, for instance). I don't
> know that NetworkPrintingProtocol (port 92) would ever need userid,
> but should the porters handbook mention something about this?
>
> Should we do something other than "just grab the next unused UID"?
Grabbing the next unused UID's probably the best course of action and
about all that can be organized. Having UIDs line up to INNA port
numbers seems kinda silly to me. :~) -sc
--
Sean Chittenden
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