Re: Nobody?

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

| > 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'.

Just to clarify this, since many people think there are "levels" of
user other than "root" and "everyone else", the "nobody" account is
unpriviledged simply in that you try not to create any files owned by
it, and thus it hasn't got write permission to anything (except
publicly writable things like /tmp, which are few).
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs zip com au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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I know it's a bummer, but the former dominatrix/teenybopper/part-time 
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At least, I *think* so.
RG>How about Bill Gates?
I don't know if he's a part-time stripper.
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