Re: Categories & httpd patching

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Victor Stanescu wrote:

> sorry for bothering you again, but at least it is from inside :)
> it seems not to be correct the password for web acces you have supplied
> me.

Looks like when Jason was uploading the new DB schema he wiped out your
and Dean's accounts.  I'll recreate them now.  

> and two other things:
> a) i would be interested to find out if there were decided the categories
> for the articles tree (to think a little more about the automatic
> classifier for the articles that i spoke on the list). if there are
> already on the web pages (that i cannot read yet, don't bother to answer
> this)

Definate categories have yet to be created.  There's a few samples on
http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/  

See:
http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/lkblist/Jun-1999/msg00176.html

For how the category structure will work.
 
> b) i do not know the situation of the machine we are working on. if it is
> yours, it would be nice not to run apache as root ( ps aux | grep http|
> grep root shows that although new apache processes are started as nobody,
> there is one instance of httpd run as root). if you are interested, take a
> look at www.lmn.pub.ro/~bruno for the netgroup patch. it is an old
> obsession of mine not to run apache as root.

Yes the box (soon to be two) are our own dedicated servers.  I've never
heard of any security concern (and I'm reasonably security aware) with the
master httpd running as root since it does not actually serve pages.  
Perhaps you could explain the reasoning for this?  If there is a reason
for it and the patch is stable I'm all for it.

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