From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 1:24:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85D214CC7 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA27272 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 04:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907040824.EAA27272@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 04:25:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Use of user nobody Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Recently I installed Squid based on the instructions in an article at freebsdezine.com Two of the steps involved changing the owners of directories/files to "nobody". Is this safe? What does it mean? Anything special about this user? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message