Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:19:05 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <29611.1003411145@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Oct 2001 14:45:04 %2B0200." <xzpsnchdsmn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 18 Oct 2001 14:45:04 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > So do you propose to do away with nobody as the username under which to > > run daemons? > > Nobody has never been the username under which to run daemons. It is > a special user that is not supposed to own any files or processes. Oh, really. I didn't know that. So the anti-nobody drive is actually broader than I first understood, at first. So when exim needs to be run as "the unpriveleged user" (nobody by default), which user should I use? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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