Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:00:08 +0400
Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:44:31 +0200
> david <davcefai@keyworld.net> wrote:
>
> > I have been bothered by this too.
> >
> > KUser shows this user as "nobody" whose home directory is
> > "/nonexistent" and whose login shell is /usr/sbin/nologin.
> >
> > The account on one machine is set as disabled but both my current
> > machines (#3 failed to turn on today :-( ) suffer the shut down
> > delay - most times but not always.
> >
> > The interesting bit (I think) is that this user is a member of only
> > the lp, lpadmin and nogroup groups.
>
> This appears wrong to me. You see, stock Debian's nobody is:
>
> $ getent passwd nobody
> nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
>
> $ id nobody
> uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup)
>
> So, you have custom shell for nobody, which can be the source of your
> problem, and you have custom groups for nobody, which is asking for
> trouble (see /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz).
>
I have /usr/sbin/nologin also. This is up-to-date sid with systemd,
which may not have the same defaults as previous distributions.
--
Joe
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