Re: exploring debian's users and groups
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> > > majordom:
> > >
> > > Majordomo has a statically allocated uid on Debian systems for
> > > historical reasons.
> > >
> > > HELP: Do we still even ship that buggy old POS?
> >
> > Not if apt-cache is behaving itself today.
>
> So why's it still in the password file on every debian box?
Because update-passwd will not remove it since it can't know if the
system is currently using it.
> So why does apache use www-data instead of say, nobody? Ah, I'll bet
> it's so that any data apache writes out, like log files, are owned by a
> non-nobody user. Yes, that's it.
As little as possible should run as nobody. Certainly not a webserver.
Wichert.
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