From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 19 9:32:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADE237B401 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.134.128.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.134.128]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02214; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BD055B8.D9CDCBC8@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:32:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Gordon Tetlow , "Andrey A. Chernov" , Sheldon Hearn , Yarema , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Gordon Tetlow writes: > > Refresh my memory as to why nobody is special in NIS land? > > For one, our rpc.ypupdated is hardcoded to refuse changes to map > entries with a key of "nobody". There might be more magic in other > places; I'm not really inclined to go groping through NIS sources to > find out where. I have it on good authority that 65535 and 0 are magic as well. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message