From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 18 11: 2: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAB337B43C; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9II1ua68940; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:01:56 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:01:56 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: John Baldwin Cc: Christopher Masto , Mike Barcroft , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20011018220156.B68658@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20011018211949.B68031@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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 On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:50:20 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > Look, we already have "pop" user in the system under the same conditions > > and you don't complain for years. > > Yeah, it snuck in before I was around. :) It's commit log also doesn't > indicate that it was ever discussed anywhere. Do you plan to remove "pop" too? I see no reason to let "pop" stay while "www" removed. They must stay both or removed both. Adding "www" was exact in adding "pop" existen style. > Some people already _use_ UID 80 for other things. Do we just screw those > people over? As you say "it's not like any competent sysadmin is incapable of editing the password file". No any changes possible without screwing somebody. > people have been pointing out, the user the server runs under shouldn't own any > files, It is not true in general. I say that nobody shouldn't own any files, not user the server runs. Owning files is allowed and documented Apache behaviour. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message