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.
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