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From: mrfab@arn.net
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:43:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020310134329.GA862@powerhouse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020310093910.GA969@mouse.mydomain>

I'd hesitate to go for root:www because there is
always that possibility that php or mod_perl 
or just developer error in a script could allow
a web user to overwrite a file--and with root
permissions that could be a disaster.

That user script sounds like a good idea.  Any
takers? :-)



On Sun 10 Mar 2002 at 03:39 -0600,
Gert Menke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 09:11:35PM -0600, mrfab@arn.net wrote:
> > First, where the hell is vi?  It is missing from
> > both the boot image and the base install.  I
> > realize that I can emerge it, but having to use
> > an editor as horrible as nano, even just for the
> > initial config, was a bit obnoxious.
> I could not agree more.
> 
> > Another file system decision that seems
> > off to me is the choice of /uar/local/httpd for the
> > default documentroot instead of /var/www or
> > something like /home/http.
> I'd prefer /var/www or /var/apache.
> /usr and /usr/local should at least be possible to mount read-only.
> Usually you don't want your apache stuff on a ro partition.
> /home/httpd just seems wrong to me, but I cannot excactly say why. Somehow
> I feel that everyone that owns files on my /home partition should be a
> "real" user (i.e. Humanoid)... ;-)
> 
> > Speaking of apache, it would be better to use
> > something other than nobody:nobody by default.
> Yes; I got used to root:www.
> 
> > I've noticed that a few distros (Redhat in
> > particlular comes to mind) have modified useradd
> > to create a personal group for a given user.
> I don't like modified versions of standard tools. I'd rather have a script
> that does the job for me, and has a different name (i.e. addusrgrp).
> 
> Just my 0.02???.
> 
> Greetings
> Gert
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-10 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-10  3:11 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations mrfab
2002-03-10  3:29 ` Matthew Kennedy
2002-03-10  9:39 ` Gert Menke
2002-03-10 13:43   ` mrfab [this message]
2002-03-10 14:22     ` Gert Menke
2002-03-10 15:03       ` mrfab
2002-03-10 18:13         ` [gentoo-dev] how to add new Language specific Symbol? Corvus Corax
2002-03-11 16:27 ` [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2002-03-12 20:30   ` [gentoo-dev] I needed to remerge cvs after zlib update Brent Cook

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