[csw-maintainers] solicitation of feedback on apache2 issue

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 9 de Dezembro de 2010 04:28, Geoff Davis <gadavis at opencsw.org> 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.