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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned 
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On 18 Oct 2001 14:45:04 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> > So do you propose to do away with nobody as the username under which to
> > run daemons?
> 
> Nobody has never been the username under which to run daemons.  It is
> a special user that is not supposed to own any files or processes.

Oh, really.  I didn't know that.  So the anti-nobody drive is actually
broader than I first understood, at first.

So when exim needs to be run as "the unpriveleged user" (nobody by
default), which user should I use?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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