Re: daemons running as nobody
On Sunday 01 April 2001 23:13, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Note: running all daemons as root is even worse than running all
> as nobody, but many daemons have to bind to privilegued ports
> somehow, and since there are no filesystem-like permissions on
> ports daemons have to be launched as root.
Install the "authbind" package and you get file system like permissions on
ports!
> ( msyslog wouldn't be running as root if there weren't network
> input modules that need to reopen privilegued ports on
> reinitialisation. )
So run it from authbind.
> > What does nobody intended for?
>
> uhm ... dunno.
Nobody is a catch-all user. There are quite a number of programs which will
setuid(nobody) if run as root.
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