on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:57:11PM +0100, Stephan Kulka (e9626471@student.tuwien.ac.at) 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. > > Is it therefore necessary that 'nobody' has an enty in the passwd file?? This is what defines a user. If 'nobody' didn't have an /etc/passwd entry, it wouldn't be a system user. Processes have to have a UID. /etc/passwd is where it comes from. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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