On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Philip Hands: > > > Is nogroup guaranteed never to own any files ? > > > > The Policy manual does not guarantee it, but it's the only reason for > > the group (and the corresponding user) to exist in the first place. > > Actually, the Policy manual doesn't even mention nogroup. > > > > A change to the policy manual might be good to document this, so perhaps > > those who are on debian-policy could suggest something along the following > > lines: > > > > 3.2 Users and groups > > > > ... > > > > 65534: > > User `nobody' or group `nogroup'. No files should be > > owned by this user or group. > > This seems reasonable.
I'm not sure if I agree. I maintain the http server, wn, for debian. At startup, it switches to user nobody. If this policy is adopted, it could not write to its log file. I could modify the source code so it switches to another user, maybe www-data or a new user just for wn. This may result in a proliferation of new users. The other option is to force use of syslog. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
