From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 1:31:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1FD14CC7 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id BAA06456; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:28:52 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Use of user nobody In-Reply-To: <199907040824.EAA27272@arutam.inch.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message