From owner-cvs-etc Mon Oct 27 11:40:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA18022 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-etc) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17913; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA24848; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:38:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:38:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Guido van Rooij cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd In-Reply-To: <199710271834.TAA02111@gvr.gvr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote: > Perhaps it's time to implement an extra switch for su to set the class. > Then we can do things like: > echo /wher/ever/httpd | su -fm -C daemon nobody > > Which would solve th problem as well and in a cleaner way. Except the small detail that httpd needs to be started by root to get port 80, it then changes to the uid/gid specified in the config file, which defaults to nobody. -john