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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2004 03:04:54 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: If you're bored during the freeze
Message-ID:  <20040427100454.GA62551@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040427090425.GA21675@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <20040424011249.GA20496@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040427090425.GA21675@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:04:26AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:12:49PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I'm probably going to add /usr/local/www to BSD.local.dist so it
> > becomes a "system" directory.
>=20
> This sounds like a good idea to me.  One related issue is ports that
> intall under /usr/local/www/data/<subdir>.  I've seen quite a few PHP
> ports that do that and it's a bad idea since that directory may or may
> not be a link to data.dist.  I've moved my PHP ports to use
> /usr/local/www/<subdir> and to have a pkg-message that shows an apache
> <Alias> directive to add that to the web hierachy as /<subdir>/.

Yes, nothing should install under data/ since that's where a live
website usually lives, and it's Very Bad for ports to install
themselves so they immediately show up there [1]

Kris

[1] e.g. some ports have insecure default settings; they may change
the website behaviour; overwrite existing files, etc.

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