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From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
To: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for apache (81)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:15:31
Message-Id: 20190813211510.65fc41f3@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for apache (81) by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:43:11 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2
3 >On 8/13/19 2:30 PM, Lars Wendler wrote:
4 >>
5 >> If we leave ACCT_USER_HOME empty HOME will be set to
6 >> /dev/null for apache user. I don't know if this is what we want.
7 >I'm not 100% sure either, but it's pretty likely that if an unwritable
8 >root-owned home directory would work, then so would /dev/null.
9 >
10 >(It works fine on our web servers, but nothing is actually running as
11 >"apache" on them.)
12 >
13
14 I'm not really sure what the impact might be. I have only one single
15 apache installation and that is a productive one. I do not want to mess
16 with that installation.
17
18 Lars
19
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21 Lars Wendler
22 Gentoo package maintainer
23 GPG: 21CC CF02 4586 0A07 ED93 9F68 498F E765 960E 9B39

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for apache (81) Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>