From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 18 11:20:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF3237B40D; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9IIKN721066; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:20:23 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Christopher Masto , Mike Barcroft , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20011018112023.A20348@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20011018211949.B68031@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:50:20AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 10:50:20AM -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