cvs commit: src/etc group

[Ceri Davies]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:26:55PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> 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

Well the entry I quoted is from slightly further up the page.  It has 73
in the group field, but I don't know if that means that the group id
should be considered "in use" or not.  Ports folk?

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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