In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mich ael S. Fischer" writes:
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Ricardo Newbery ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Assuming that "nobody" is an available user on your system, then is >> the "-u user" option for varnishd superfluous? > >Who's to say that "nobody" is an unprivileged user? > >/etc/passwd: > >nobody:*:0:0:alias for root:... > >Well-engineered software doesn't make potentially false assumptions >about the environment in which it runs. And they don't. Varnish for instance assumes that the administrator is not a total madman, who would do something as patently stupid as you prospose above, under the general assumption that if he were, varnish would be the least of his troubles. Can we be a bit serious here ? Thanks. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
