Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:34:27PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Johnie Ingram wrote:
> >
> >"Eduardo" == Eduardo Marcel Macan <macan@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >Eduardo> See, I am not suggesting that we change the username
> >Eduardo> to solve the postgres problem, this would solve this problem,
> >Eduardo> but not THE problem with postgres. I am just wondering why it
> >Eduardo> is not called just 'www'.
> >
> >I still say its a nasty Bug in postgresql createuser. If you create a
> >"wwwdata" user and then rename the user manually in pg_shadow, it
> >works fine. At the very least createuser could have an
> >--allow-badname option like adduser.
>
> The SQL command, CREATE USER, does allow it; I specifically disallowed it
> in the createuser command in order to stop people running into the GRANT
> bug.
Calling it a bug may be a bit harsh, but I'm glad you disabled it.
'-' is an operator in SQL and keeping people from using it foolishly
is a "good thing". Just think of using & or | in filenames. If you
want to confuse operators and operands, you deserve what you ask for,
but no one would call this a bug in bash (would they?).
My 2c.
Steve Bowman
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