From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 5 18:50:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FCD37B400; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tgd.net (mail.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B9343E42; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:50:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mail.tgd.net) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 10D8F20F02; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:31:43 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6CEB 1B06 BFD3 70F6 95BE 7E4D 8E85 2E0A 5F5B 3ECB X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ 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 > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message