From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: New user for fontconfig cache
To: "Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 10:09:44 +0100

On 2025/07/01 10:58, Florian Obser wrote:
> On 2025-07-01 01:39 -06, "Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org> 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.

How about 36? Never used, and next to _x11 which seems a good place for it.