On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Thordur Bjornsson wrote: > On 2011 Oct 04 (Tue) at 10:32:13 -0600 (-0600), Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse > wrote: > > CVSROOT: /cvs > > Module name: src > > Changes by: [email protected] 2011/10/04 10:32:13 > > > > Modified files: > > etc : master.passwd > > > > Log message: > > Stop spreading lies about the usage of 'nobody', it's confusing to link it > > with NFS here. Result of a discussion with several. > > > > ok deraadt@ millert@ > > Hm. Very intresting, because I remember discussions that where very much the > opposite of this conclusion that the linkage between NFS and nobody is > confusing > and a lie. > > As far as I can tell, the nobody user was introduced with NFS for specific > reasons > (uid/gid mappings) and has always been associated with NFS. There was even > talk > about the gross misuse of this user for purposes other then NFS. > > There is no point in a general "nobody" user, it is horrifing actually. > > If nobody is not for or to be linked with NFS, what is it then ?
Yeah I got confused as well by this commit... rev 1.58 was: nobody is for NFS, and nobody should *&^#@$ use it for anything else IIRC we even went through the ports tree to check those daemons that were using nobody and modify them to use another unpriv user. -- Antoine
