From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 6 1:47:47 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 4826B37B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merkury.pol.lublin.pl (merkury.pol.lublin.pl [212.182.59.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0215443E65 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ni@merkury.pol.lublin.pl) Received: (qmail 80024 invoked by uid 9999); 6 Sep 2002 08:47:12 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:47:12 +0200 From: Lukasz Bojarski To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The list of used UIDs in the porters handbook? Message-ID: <20020906104712.A80003@merkury.pol.lublin.pl> References: <20020811110306.51c41dac.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020830210245.GD60683@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020906013143.GB20440@ninja1.internal> <20020906040220.GD60748@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020906040220.GD60748@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:02:20PM -0700 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message