Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:47:12 +0200 From: Lukasz Bojarski <ni@merkury.pol.lublin.pl> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <20020906104712.A80003@merkury.pol.lublin.pl> In-Reply-To: <20020906040220.GD60748@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:02:20PM -0700 References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05111704b99db21ae76e@[128.113.24.47]> <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> <20020906040220.GD60748@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:02:20PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
Don't you think aesthetics is also important in FreeBSD?
I think aesthetics makes administration easier and less confused.
Lukasz
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