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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for apache (81)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:58:29
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41muM11S6vJyaSM1BWM6ZUnOBfWXHeuhKhfND_Y05X6BA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for apache (81) by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 1:39 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 8/13/19 1:14 PM, Lars Wendler wrote:
4 > > I would like to reserve UID/GID 81 for apache (www-servers/apache).
5 > >
6 > > This is the historical UID/GID for apache user in Gentoo.
7 > > Fedora and RedHat use UID/GID 48. Arch Linux has no
8 > > "apache" user but a "http" user with UID/GID 33 (which is already
9 > > reserved in Gentoo).
10 > >
11 > > Here are the commits for possible review:
12 > > https://github.com/Polynomial-C/gentoo/commits/accts-apache
13 > >
14 >
15 > By setting /var/www as apache's home directory, we're going to wind up
16 > with /var/www being owned by apache:root.
17
18 The ebuild sets ACCT_USER_HOME_OWNER=root:root.