On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 16:49 +0000, Richard Cohen wrote:
> Package: thy
> Version: 0.9.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The man page says:
> 
>   -uid (-U) UID
>   UID is the user (either numerical id or user  name)  thy
>   should run as. Default is 65534.
> 
> but
> 
>   # thy
>   # ps -u nobody
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>   
>   # killall thy
>   
>   # thy --uid nobody
>   # ps -u nobody
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>   18771 ?        00:00:00 thy
>     
> Of course, starting via /etc/init.d/thy, the uid is explicitly set
> (probably to www-data)

Whops, thy's behaviour was changed during the 0.8 releases, to run as
the user who started it, instead of 65534 (the uid of nobody is
different between GNU/Linux distributions, not to mention the BSDs), but
the manual page was not updated.

I'll correct that in the next release.

Thanks for catching this!

-- 
Gergely Nagy



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