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Re: Who is 'nobody'?



On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
> Who is this "nobody"?

'nobody' is a 'system' user. User 'nobody' should never ever have ANY files
in the filesystem (if it does, that's probably a security hole), and should
be used by daemons and the like that need only read access to files that are
readable by all users.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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