Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:47:14 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Needed: apache/httpd ports to use 'www' user Message-ID: <20010207194713.A70483@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010207104224.J6750@FreeBSD.org>; from ade@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:42:24AM -0600 References: <20010207014012.B22502@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010207104224.J6750@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed 2001-02-07 (10:42), Ade Lovett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:40:12AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I've had discussions with Ade about this before, but don't know the > > current status of the changes. > > Well, short of allocating a uid/gid and name for it, it will be > a trivial matter for me to update the one singular apache port in > my tree (see previous recent posts to -ports for more details). > > Addressing the 'www' user, so that both apache and zope (any others?) > use it, should probably be done at the same time as the single > apache port, so that we only go through a few days of breakage once. Er, no, that's exactly what you don't want. You want one user for apache (apache or httpd), and one for zope (zope), and one for squid (squid), &c. We also have any number of ports that install users by themselves. It only really makes a problem when ports require a specific uid, not username. (number, not name) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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