Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:13:15 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" <jeh@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <3BCD75DB.8B23CEDC@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011017155854.A43168@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote:
>
> Due to Apache mis-use of nobody:nogroup UID/GID (user nobody must not own
> any file in the system), I plan switch apache to www:www instead. It
> breaks some related ports and they should be fixed by their maintainers.
> Moreover, it breaks existen cgi-bin-write setups too, group nogroup should
> be changed to www by webmasters.
I am all for this and have made this change at several of my websites.
>
> Questions are:
>
> What is the best way to _automatically_ add www:www to
> /etc/{passwd,group}? I think about 'pw' command, but it will be nice if
> somebody already have working example.
>
> I plan to add www:www to default etc directory passwd/group too. What is
> the best numerical value, if any, for www UID/GID?
>
There are several ports to look into. ports/database/mysql-* and
ports/database/postgresql*, both of these create users. majordomo does
also.
Jim
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