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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:16:34 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010416121634.E10023@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104161606.JAA52818@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:06:23AM -0700
References:  <20010416195744.A2726@nagual.pp.ru> <200104161606.JAA52818@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:06:23AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> Also it seems as if -YOU- are the maintainer of apache, so please can
> you go fix it's abuse of nobody:nogroup.  (Hint: running as nobody:nogroup
> is _NOT_ the bug.)

Well, arguably it is, because people persist in making files owned by
nobody, and since apache runs as that user a webserver compromise
gives access to all those files.  If it ran as e.g. user www, then
it's explicit which files it owns because that user is unlikely to be
used randomly outside a webserver context.

Kris

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