From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 04:56:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D33616A4CF; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF1E43D31; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (verified OK)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDBC548A2; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:56:38 -0600 (CST) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1AFA96D455; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:56:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:56:38 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Alfred Perlstein Message-ID: <20040126125638.GC9772@madman.celabo.org> References: <200401260008.i0Q08cIl014780@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040126000922.GA6102@madman.celabo.org> <20040126004123.GJ53344@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040126004123.GJ53344@elvis.mu.org> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: re@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/cvs/src server.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:56:40 -0000 On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:41:23PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jacques A. Vidrine [040125 16:09] wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:08:38PM -0800, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > > nectar 2004/01/25 16:08:38 PST > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_5_2) > > > contrib/cvs/src server.c > > > Log: > > > MFC 1.1.1.14: Do not allow pserver to be run as root. > > > > This was also `Approved by: re'. > > Nice of us to break something that used to work without a deprication/warning > period. :( Running pserver as root was already a broken configuration. This just makes it more obvious. :-) Seriously, if we were talking about 4.x I might have more sympathy, but I believe this is an appropriate behavior to change in a 5.x release. Apparently the CVS developers also felt this was an appropriate change for minor point release. Finally, there was overwhelming support for this change: over the past month I've received several requests for it; and RE received several requests to incorporate the change in 5.2.1. > Note: this is what my earlier mail was about. I haven't seen an earlier mail on this subject from you... I guess I could have missed it? Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se