Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:38:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027143612.24788B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710271834.TAA02111@gvr.gvr.org>
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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. -john
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