Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:32:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Yarema <yds@dppl.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <3BD055B8.D9CDCBC8@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110181021380.1612-100000@smtp.gnf.org> <xzpzo6obvws.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> writes: > > Refresh my memory as to why nobody is special in NIS land? > > For one, our rpc.ypupdated is hardcoded to refuse changes to map > entries with a key of "nobody". There might be more magic in other > places; I'm not really inclined to go groping through NIS sources to > find out where. I have it on good authority that 65535 and 0 are magic as well. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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