> > 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. Is it therefore necessary that 'nobody' has an enty in the passwd file?? Stephan