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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:43:06 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Yarema <yds@dppl.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned
Message-ID:  <20011018154306.C63215@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20011018110513.C38731B3B0@volyn.dppl.net>
References:  <20011018110513.C38731B3B0@volyn.dppl.net>

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:05:11 -0400, Yarema wrote:

> Apache is not abusing nobody:nogroup -- users who don't configure their CGI 
> environment are.   The Right Thing is to run CGIs via suexec. 

No, Apache abuses nobody just running under it. It gains to it access
priveledges it must not have.

> suexec works better if apache does run as nobody:nogroup.  

No. suexec works equally for any user/group.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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