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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:54:30 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned
Message-ID:  <20011018145428.B62250@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <27233.1003402165@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
References:  <20011018143019.A62250@nagual.pp.ru> <27233.1003402165@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:49:25 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Sheesh, I wish I'd seen this conversation happening before you committed
> your change. :-(

I not commit anything yet to Apache waiting for replies for a while.

> There are numerous ways of setting up CGI scripts so that they don't run
> as nobody.  I think adding www:www to the system just for this was
> unnecessary.

This is not for this reason at all. This is because nobody user is NFS 
special and can't be used even for sandboxes without any writes. 

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

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