Re: Nobody?

[Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>]

On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 03:33:25AM -1000, widget wrote:
> Is nobody supposed to be in my /etc/passwd?
> 
> nobody:*:99:99:Nobody:/:

the nobody account is used by httpd and a few other daemons as a kind
of 'least common denominator' user account.  It's a place keeper
account that shouldn't have any special priviledges.  You can think of
it as user 'other'.

-- 
Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>