Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:45:37 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: 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: <199710271945.UAA24705@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027143612.24788B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Oct 27, 97 02:38:52 pm"
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John Fieber wrote: > 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. :-( Yep; I overlooked that. However the switch is still usefull so I coded it and will commit later. -Guido
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