Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:20:23 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20011018112023.A20348@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011018105020.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:50:20AM -0700 References: <20011018211949.B68031@nagual.pp.ru> <XFMail.011018105020.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:50:20AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > Some people already _use_ UID 80 for other things. Do we just screw those > people over? Besides, it's not like any competent sysadmin is incapable of Those people probably do not mergemaster their master.passwd. Thus adding www==80 to the stock sources does not really create a problem for existing systems (you are now probably going to mention YP). Web server ports can check for the existence of a `www' user and add it if not there -- again not causing a problem for existing installations. Over time the stock user `www' will be in use everywhere and this will be a non-issue. > We do? Geez, of my 9 FreeBSD boxes at home, only 1 has apache on it. > That's a whopping 11%, hardly 'almost all' (which is what I assume you > meant to say). Granted, my machines aren't representative of all > FreeBSD machines, but you can't assume that all FreeBSD machines are > webservers. No, but a large number are, and it is one of our bread and butter. So there is nothing wrong with giving web servering a little extra attention in the base system. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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