From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 5 18:26:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B3937B400; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353BC43E3B; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g861QToa362474; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:26:29 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:26:28 -0400 To: Kris Kennaway , Alexander Leidinger From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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"? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message