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From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>
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Subject: Re: Use of user nobody
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> 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?

	Nobody is a system user. It allows you to run programs with root 
premissions, but not as root to circumvent a few security holes. You also 
can't login as it... at least I'm pretty sure.. :) In other words... it's 
safe to follow the instructions and change permissions.

						Rick


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