Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:25:51 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Antonio Nati <A.Nati@cisco.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache and effective user id Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408112518.4810A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199704072353.BAA05709@cisco.it>
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Is the webserver running as root? Cya -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..) On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Antonio Nati wrote: > >> > >> I'm running apache, with user = nobody (= 65536). > > > >>From memory, FreeBSD uses 16-bit integers to hold userids, and so that > >gives a valid range of UIDs of 0 .. 65535 inclusive. 65536 is 1 too much, > >and so "overflows" and becomes 0 again. :) > > > > Sorry to make you lose time, but my nobody is 65534 (not 65536). Sorry, but > I work with a dual-boot system and during the boots my memory (me, not the > computer) loses something. > > My production system runs with dedicated uid/gid, it's my stand-alone > development system that has this problem. > > Anyway, coming back to the original question, is it right to have > getuid = 65534 > geteuid = 0 > in the execution of a cgi program? > > Tonino > >
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