From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 5 21: 2:27 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 37F1E37B400; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEE243E42; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5A3966D7A; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:02:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Garance A Drosihn , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <20020906040220.GD60748@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kvUQC+jR9YzypDnK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --kvUQC+jR9YzypDnK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:31:43PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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? > >=20 > > Should we do something other than "just grab the next unused UID"? >=20 > 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 I agree..there's no hard need for the uid of a daemon to coincide with its IANA port assignment, except for aesthetics. Kris --kvUQC+jR9YzypDnK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9eCjMWry0BWjoQKURAqVMAKDW+lrj4RjYn27kDbjn0M3zjBDD1wCghNyO SDHCIYqnrNVj51oZ9r3WtBc= =0Blw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kvUQC+jR9YzypDnK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message