Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:02:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <20020906040220.GD60748@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05111704b99db21ae76e@[128.113.24.47]> <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal>
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:31:43PM -0700, Sean Chittenden 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"?
>
> Grabbing the next unused UID's probably the best course of action and
> about all that can be organized. Having UIDs line up to INNA port
> numbers seems kinda silly to me. :~) -sc
I agree..there's no hard need for the uid of a daemon to coincide with
its IANA port assignment, except for aesthetics.
Kris
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