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Hi Michael, |
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:39:34 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>On 8/13/19 1:14 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: |
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>> I would like to reserve UID/GID 81 for apache (www-servers/apache). |
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>> This is the historical UID/GID for apache user in Gentoo. |
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>> Fedora and RedHat use UID/GID 48. Arch Linux has no |
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>> "apache" user but a "http" user with UID/GID 33 (which is already |
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>> reserved in Gentoo). |
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>> Here are the commits for possible review: |
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>> https://github.com/Polynomial-C/gentoo/commits/accts-apache |
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>By setting /var/www as apache's home directory, we're going to wind up |
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>with /var/www being owned by apache:root. That's not quite right, for a |
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>couple reasons: |
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> * The anonymous website user shouldn't be able to delete the entire |
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> web hierarchy using e.g. a wordpress exploit. |
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> * Every other web server wants to share /var/www, too. |
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>For example, www-servers/cherokee wants /var/www to be the home |
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>directory for the cherokee user, as does www-servers/ocsigenserver. |
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>Hiawatha stores stuff under /var/www/hiawatha, and just about everybody |
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>uses /var/www/localhost for the default vhost. |
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>Thinking ahead -- would anything bad happen if we left the home |
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>directory at its default? I don't think our default apache config needs |
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>to own /var/www for any reason, but I'm not certain. |
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thanks for the review. I've force-pushed the acct-user/apache commit |
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with ACCT_USER_HOME_OWNER being set to root:root. |
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Lars |
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Lars Wendler |
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Gentoo package maintainer |
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