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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:38:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027143612.24788B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710271834.TAA02111@gvr.gvr.org>

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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




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