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

[Pierre Chapuis]

Le Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:48:12 +0200,
Arvid Ephraim Picciani <aep at ibcsolutions.de> a écrit :

> so this is the official announcment that the vanilla-style-do-it-yourself for 
> professional engineers and manual readers is no more, and that in future 
> there will be rather debian-style-out-of-the-box solutions for  those who 
> want it to "just work" ?
> I'm fine with that new way. I'm going to look for a different distro then 
> instead of having to unpatch more and more packages. I just would like to 
> have a clear signal finally. The back and forth between those different 
> styles is really painfull for somone who has to actually maintain a few 
> dozens of machines. 

This is not a patch but a small change in default configuration to follow upstream advice [1]. I wouldn't go as far as saying that we're becoming Debian for that much.

[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/security_tips.html#serverroot