From owner-cvs-etc Tue Oct 28 04:07:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA18214 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:07:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-etc) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA18129; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:05:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from p.richards@elsevier.co.uk) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29967; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:03:50 GMT Received: from screavie.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:04:12 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.192.70]) by screavie.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21737; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:04:09 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA00441; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:04:08 GMT To: Guido van Rooij Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=), jfieber@indiana.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd References: <199710272054.VAA18661@gvr.gvr.org> From: Paul Richards Date: 28 Oct 1997 12:04:07 +0000 In-Reply-To: Guido van Rooij's message of Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:54:52 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <57sotmytzc.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido van Rooij writes: > I completely agre with you here. It seems the best way to do this for apache. > What I tried to say was that the extra switch for su would be usefull > in other cases, and that why I made it. Hmm, surely the best way to deal with this is to fix the Apache configuration. Nowhere I've ever installed Apache, or have worked where someone else has installed it, leaves it running as nobody since that route is fraught with problems. Shipping the sources with a default as nobody is more a legacy issue that anything else and rather than force the users to configure a sensible alternative it's left as nobody since that will work everywhere. For the FreeBSD version I'd suggest we create an apache user. -- Dr Paul Richards. IT, Product Application Development. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: x3155