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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:45:37 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Cc:        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:  <199710271945.UAA24705@gvr.gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027143612.24788B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Oct 27, 97 02:38:52 pm"

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John Fieber wrote:
> 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. 

:-( Yep; I overlooked that.
However the switch is still usefull so I coded it and will commit
later.

-Guido



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