Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 01:53:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: Antonio Nati <A.Nati@cisco.it> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache and effective user id Message-ID: <199704072353.BAA05709@cisco.it>
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>> I'm running apache, with user = nobody (= 65536).
>
>>From memory, FreeBSD uses 16-bit integers to hold userids, and so that
>gives a valid range of UIDs of 0 .. 65535 inclusive. 65536 is 1 too much,
>and so "overflows" and becomes 0 again. :)
>
Sorry to make you lose time, but my nobody is 65534 (not 65536). Sorry, but
I work with a dual-boot system and during the boots my memory (me, not the
computer) loses something.
My production system runs with dedicated uid/gid, it's my stand-alone
development system that has this problem.
Anyway, coming back to the original question, is it right to have
getuid = 65534
geteuid = 0
in the execution of a cgi program?
Tonino
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