No dia 9 de Dezembro de 2010 04:28, Geoff Davis <[email protected]> escreveu: >> I've had a request to change the default apache2 user from nobody to >> webservd, following the sol10 SUNWapache2. While this isn't a _bad_ >> idea, it wouldn't work out of the box on sol9. >> >> I agree that nobody (a CSW set value) isn't a good choice for this >> given the use of that uid for various other things (nfs, etc) and >> think that even using the apache default daemon would be a better >> option. >> >> The third option is to add a csw specific account for our apache >> package to use by default. >> >> I'm not sure if a change is actually warranted at this point as many >> sites that care about this issue will have added their own account >> ages ago anyway. > > I'm in this camp. I don't even use the stock csw apache configuration so the > user that you would add would have no effect other than to pollute my user > database.
That's about existing installations. What about new users? Creating an account looks like a better choice. For a user, discovering that we're running apache as nobody and having to fix it is not a straightforward experience. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
