/etc/rc.bsdextended: am I misunderstanding this..?

[Jan Grant]

Can someone clear something up for me?

[[[
# For apache to read user files, the ruleadd must give
# it permissions by default.
####
${CMD} add subject uid 80 object not uid 80 mode rxws;
${CMD} add subject gid 80 object not gid 80 mode rxws;
]]]

Doesn't the above mean that an apache user (eg, user-supplied CGI 
process, PHP script, etc) has the ability to read (and write!) anything 
in the filesystem?

Similarly: mailnull, majordomo, bin, etc, appear to get "elevated" 
privileges via this file and mac_bsdextended.

[[[
####
# For cyrus:
${CMD} add subject uid 60 object not uid 60 mode rxws;
${CMD} add subject gid 60 object not gid 60 mode rxws;
]]]

Cyrus is a "black box" mail server: the cyrus user normally winds up 
owning anything that the IMAP server needs to touch.

[[[
# For the nobody account:
${CMD} add subject uid 65534 object not uid 65534 mode rxws;
${CMD} add subject gid 65534 object not gid 65534 mode rxws;
]]]

... and doesn't this (almost, no "a" flag) completely negate the point 
of the nobody account in the first instance?

Not quite getting it,
jan

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