From: Florian Obser Subject: Re: New user for fontconfig cache To: "Anthony J. Bentley" Cc: tech@openbsd.org Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:58:08 +0200 On 2025-07-01 01:39 -06, "Anthony J. Bentley" wrote: > When installing fonts, pkg_add(1) runs fc-cache(1) to add them to > /var/cache/fontconfig. It does so as root, which makes me uncomfortable. > During j2k25 I experimented with changing ownership of the font cache to > a dedicated unprivileged user and switching to it during pkg_add; this > works, and I'd like to make it the default. > > The first step is to create the user. Since this is simple and can > be done independently of the remaining parts of the transition, I'd > like to commit this right away. > > ok? > probably NOT ok > +_fc-cache:*:120:120::0:0:Font configuration cache:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin uid 120 is used on cvs. I couldn't find it in the history, so I don't know why it's there. -- In my defence, I have been left unsupervised.