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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:49:46 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Yarema <yds@dppl.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned 
Message-ID:  <28552.1003405786@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:43:06 %2B0400." <20011018154306.C63215@nagual.pp.ru> 

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:43:06 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" 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.

Now you've TOTALLY lost me.  You're saying processes shouldn't be run as
nobody? :-)

> > suexec works better if apache does run as nobody:nogroup.  
> 
> No. suexec works equally for any user/group.

Exactly. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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