On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mich > > ael S. Fischer" writes: > > >> 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. > > > >I'm not saying that they would; I'm just saying that you can't count > >on user 'nobody' having the precise role that a security-conscious > >sysadmin would want. > > Which is why there is a -u argument, for people who muck up the > configuration that has been standard on all decent UNIX'es for > the last 15 years.
Thus answering OP's question. QED. :-) --Michael _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc