>If you want to know why 'nobody' is not singled out as a specially >restricted user then I can only give you my explanation and I don't know >how authoritative that is. Firstly the Unix model says there are two >types of users: superusers (uid=0) and ordinary users (uid!=0). I'd modify this to say that superusers have uid / gid equal to 0, while 'ordinary' users have uid / gid not equal to 0.
Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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