On 01/12/2018 05:11 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> Side Note: I have a ping out to a SUSE guy to see how they handle this
>> but the guy lives on the other side of the earth so I probably
>> will not get a response until tomorrow.
> I can tell you what that is, as I run (open)SUSE systems.
>
> SUSE systems set the following in their /etc/passwd:
> nobody:x:65534:65533:nobody:/var/lib/nobody:/bin/bash
>
> This is what they set for /etc/group:
> nobody:x:65533:
> nogroup:x:65534:nobody
>
> This only varies slightly from what Mageia and Debian/Ubuntu do in
> that nobody is both a member of nogroup but has its own nobody group.
I too verified the above but they also have this id mapping
in /etc/idmapd.conf
[Mapping]
nobody-user = nobody
Nobody-Group = nobody
which is the glue to make the nobody id used.
We have these commented out, by default.
So I guess the next question is what the current
nobody id (25) used for and why does it exist?
steved.
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