Re: www-data uid and gid problems
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Alexander E. Apke wrote:
> I have noticed that postgres 6.1 has problems with usernames
> or groups that have dashes "-" in them. We are trying to use apache
> to authenticate to a postgres database. Its easy for us to get around
> the problem, just by modifying the passwd and group files. It gets
> annoying though, to need to change the uid and gid back to www-data just
> to install/upgrade apache.
>
> This might pose problems with other non-debian applications that
> cannot parse the unix password file correctly. I don't know if this is a
> debian-policy problem or just a base-passwd issue, since all debian web
> servers use www-data.
>
> Should I submit a bug report on apache, base-passwd, or
> debian-policy, that is if people think this is a problem.
The real question is whether it's allowed to use dashes (-) in a login
name. I think it is allowed, but I don't know for sure and I don't know
where to look this up.
Anyways, if a dash is allowed, you should report a bug against the
postgres package--otherwise, against the base-passwd package.
Thanks,
Chris
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