Re: nouser/nogroup clarification
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Philip Hands:
> > > Is nogroup guaranteed never to own any files ?
> >
> > The Policy manual does not guarantee it, but it's the only reason for
> > the group (and the corresponding user) to exist in the first place.
> > Actually, the Policy manual doesn't even mention nogroup.
> >
> > A change to the policy manual might be good to document this, so perhaps
> > those who are on debian-policy could suggest something along the following
> > lines:
> >
> > 3.2 Users and groups
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 65534:
> > User `nobody' or group `nogroup'. No files should be
> > owned by this user or group.
>
> This seems reasonable.
I'm not sure if I agree. I maintain the http server, wn, for
debian. At startup, it switches to user nobody. If this policy
is adopted, it could not write to its log file.
I could modify the source code so it switches to another user,
maybe www-data or a new user just for wn. This may result in a
proliferation of new users.
The other option is to force use of syslog.
--
Jean Pierre
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