From nobody@hyperreal.com  Fri Dec  6 09:30:41 1996
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 09:30:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Bubon <rjbubon@uswmedia.com>
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To: apbugs@hyperreal.com
Subject: In httpd.conf the Group directive always defaults to nobody
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>Number:         31
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       In httpd.conf the Group directive always defaults to nobody
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec  6 09:40:01 1996
>Last-Modified:  Fri Dec  6 18:12:13 PST 1996
>Originator:     rjbubon@uswmedia.com
>Organization:
>Release:        1.2b1
>Environment:
BSDI BSD/OS 2.1
gcc version 1.42
>Description:
When trying to configure the "Group" directive to "nogroup", httpd exits with
error message "httpd: bad group name nobody".

I beleive that the default "DEFAULT_GROUP" value is always being used,
because I do have "nogroup" in the "/etc/group" file.

Quick fix is to add to group file group name "nobody".

>How-To-Repeat:
Do a basic configuration file and change the group to something other than
"nobody"
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: fielding
State-Changed-When: Fri Dec  6 18:12:12 PST 1996
State-Changed-Why:

This has been fixed for the next release.  The correct fix
is indeed to change "nobody" to "nogroup".

>Unformatted: