Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
as mentioned in the apache thread I would like to use a dedicated user/group
for our different webserver packages. To achieve this I'd like to add the
user/group http to our filesystem package. (It allready contains them for
mail and ftp)
According to
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database uid/gid
33 should be free for use.
An install script to add those for upgraders have to be added, too.
Another approach would be adding an install script creating those groups to
the webserver packages.
What do you think is best?
Pierre
Why not just use nobody for programs that need their own user, as a sane default. Any smart admin should create any groups and users himself when necessairy. And prevents cluttering of unnecessairy users/groups. For example in my httpd setups, the http users would never be used.
IMO.
Glenn
