From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 2:29:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A00737B403; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.137.205.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.137.205]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9I9TFs23549; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9I9TCa03276; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:29:12 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Doug Barton Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <20011018022912.E373@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011017155854.A43168@nagual.pp.ru> <20011017234403.W22111-100000@db-cvad-1-tmp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011017234403.W22111-100000@db-cvad-1-tmp.yahoo.com>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:12:54AM -0700 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 [Follow-ups to developers@ removed to avoid the wrath of Brian.] On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:12:54AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: [snip] > I'm a little confused by what you mean here. Is our apache port > setting ownership on any files to user nobody? If so, it should be fixed > not to do that. The point of user nobody is to have a user that does not > own any file on the system (as you describe) but is able to read files > that are world readable. Take a look at /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate > for a good example. Can you describe what exactly apache is doing wrong? Actually, /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate is not a good example. It abuses the 'nobody' account since it gives /var/db/locate.database ownership by 'nobody.' I made patches to fix this a few weeks ago, but the locate(1) maintainer is sitting on them. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message