From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 21 8:25:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C668337B405 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9LFPFL32356; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:25:15 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:25:15 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Dirk Meyer , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <20011021192515.B32190@nagual.pp.ru> References: <4QAWHA6EXO@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <20011017155854.A43168@nagual.pp.ru> <4QAWHA6EXO@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <20011019021808.A1594@over-yonder.net> <20011021191611.A32190@nagual.pp.ru> <20011021101831.B45417@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011021101831.B45417@over-yonder.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:18:31 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 07:16:11PM +0400 I heard the voice of > Andrey A. Chernov, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > I don't think it is nice. It makes changes to all dependend > > ports more difficult than simple nobody->www nogroup->www. > > People who really want another name, can add one > > /etc/passwd line with the same uid. > > Doesn't matter if you're testing for the existence of the username, then > trying to add it, then making the port use it. No, dependent ports must not add any username. > *I* know what username I want the port to use better than it does. Maybe, but it looks like unnecessary complication in this case. We already have fixed name before "nobody:nogroup" and nobody tries to change it. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message