Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:26:28 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <p05111704b99db21ae76e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At 2:02 PM -0700 8/30/02, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 11, 2002, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > do we have a maintainer for the used UIDs in the porters hanbook?
>>
> > If yes: I need the next free UID (92) for the soon to be committed
> > port 'www/interchange':
> > interch:*:92:92:Interchange user:${PREFIX}/interchange:/sbin/nologin
>
>There's no maintainer: you claim a UID by committing to that file.
>If someone is already using the UID and forgot to commit it - well,
>they lose.
As a side thought here, note that we're seeing a trend to create a
userid for any network-services, where the UID is the same as the
port number of the service (uid 22 for sshd, for instance). I don't
know that NetworkPrintingProtocol (port 92) would ever need userid,
but should the porters handbook mention something about this?
Should we do something other than "just grab the next unused UID"?
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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