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Subject: nobody war (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup
 to www:www planned)
In-Reply-To: <xzpsnchdsmn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:45:13 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>,
	"Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, ports@freebsd.org,
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Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net
From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Organization: ACME
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> writes:
> > 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.  It

how about setiathome, dnetc and junkbuster which also run as nobody.
setiathome and dnetc own files respectively in /var/db/setiathome and
/usr/local/distributed.net.

I'm not running it, but squid is probably running as nobody as well since
/usr/local/squid/{logs,cache} are owned by nobody.

much better is to : find /usr/ports -name Makefile | xargs grep nobody

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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