From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 29 15:33: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B88D737B421 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:32:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 78251 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Mar 2002 23:26:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:26:57 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman To: esoha@attbi.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! should ports make uids? Message-ID: <20020329182657.E77934@databits.net> References: <20020329204337.WHZF1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020329204337.WHZF1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58>; from esoha@attbi.com on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:43:37PM +0000 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 ++ 29/03/02 20:43 +0000 - esoha@attbi.com: | I'm working on the port of a background process that runs | as root, currently. It doesn't need to run as root, but | it does need to store and access a configuration file | that contains a password. | | Should the port install a user id and run as that user or | should the port run as root? Or as "nobody"? HELP! It should probably use it's own UID. See the porters handbook for details and look in the tree for sample pkg-install scripts that add users. --pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)] finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message