[csw-maintainers] solicitation of feedback on apache2 issue

[Geoff Davis]

On Dec 8, 2010, at 18:29, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.

> If it is warranted, I think I'd lean toward adding a
> cswap2 user/group to the system...
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> Thanks
> -Ben