[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

[Simo Leone]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 06:36:41PM +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote:
> 
> before a specific point in arch history we used to tell people that making a 
> system "secure" and "easy" is the job of a sysadmin.  
> 
> For people who like a default "security" without rtfm, there is always debian.
> 
Ehhh... true, but I always read it as "We provide sane and secure
defaults, but the rest is up to you".

By using different users, we are providing secure defaults. Sort of like
/etc/hosts.deny denies all connections by default.

-S
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