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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 19:07:41 +0400
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Craig Leres: problems with cron and FreeBSD login classes
Message-ID:  <19980412190741.61372@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <19980412182154.41014@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 06:21:54PM %2B0400
References:  <28136.892372689@time.cdrom.com> <19980412182154.41014@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 06:21:54PM +0400, Андрей Чернов wrote:
> The same words are true for inetd too. This patch takes us just back to
> previous broken variant. See CVS notes why this variant is implemented
> over old one you suggest. In few words login classes have restrictions
> which prevents cron/inetd to do some work under particular user. Live
> example is "nobody"  user abused by Apache. If you _want_ restrictions,
> use "user/class"  semantics. 

The next reason is backward compatibility. Current implementation fully
compatible with old inetd/cron configuration tables since classes are
non-defaut extension while suggested one is _not_ compatible and really
cause serious problems with system maintenance like not runnig daemons
or cron jobs.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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