cvs commit: src/etc group
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 5 11:24:37 PST 2006
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:04:39PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>> rwatson 2006-02-05 18:04:39 UTC
>>
>> FreeBSD src repository
>>
>> Modified files:
>> etc group
>> Log:
>> Allocate an 'audit' group, membership in which will grant the audit
>> review right by virtue of read file permission on /var/audit and its
>> contents.
>>
>> Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
>>
>> Revision Changes Path
>> 1.33 +1 -0 src/etc/group
>
>> | +audit:*:73:
>
> According to the Porter's Handbook, that's possibly the very worst choice:
>
> ircservices:*:73:73:IRC services:/nonexistent:/nonexistent
Hmm. I was looking at the copy of the Porter's Handbook on www.FreeBSD.org
and it didn't show that one as reserved:
...
proxy:*:62:
authpf:*:63:
uucp:*:66:
xten:*:67:
dialer:*:68:
network:*:69:
pgsql:*:70:
simscan:*:74:
www:*:80:
qnofiles:*:81:
...
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html
Of course, it also didn't show some of the groups now in /etc/group. Am I
looking at the wrong porter's handbook?
Incidentally, this was one of the few group ID's I could find that wasn't
allocated in one of {Darwin, Solaris, FreeBSD, SuSE}.
Robert N M Watson
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