ports/109497: x11-servers/xorg-fontserver rc.d/xfs.sh script missing "-user"

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 17 21:33:29 UTC 2007


Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:41 +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Synopsis: x11-servers/xorg-fontserver rc.d/xfs.sh script missing "-user"
>>
>> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>> State-Changed-By: flz
>> State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 16 11:40:38 UTC 2007
>> State-Changed-Why: 
>> I just checked and other OS'es seem to run it as root as well.
>>
>> If this is a real concern to you, just set xfs_flags="-user nobody" in
>> /etc/rc.conf. I think this is what you're looking for.
> 
> Please note that if you set "xfs_user=" to something, the default
> rc.subr will already try to do something with it, and (silently) fail to
> start xfs at all. I do think fixing this would be more user friendly --
> besides, its only a two-line patch anyway, and it doesn't even change
> the default of running as root.
> 
> But if think it's important to refuse this change, I can certainly live
> without that patch.

This is not what I said, please re-read my message.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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