Hi,

Environment: Apache httpd 2.2.9
OS: AIX 5.3 64 bit

Running httpd returns the error "bad user name nobody". The User and
Group directives in the httpd.conf have nobody and nobody. I  can rlogin
to this machine as the user nobody without problems. The uid and gid of
nobody are the default AIX values given below. httpd works fine on other
AIX machines with the same uid/gid. Even on this machine, if I change
uid/gid to some smaller number it works. However, as per AIX docs
4294967294 is a valid id.

bash-3.00# cat /etc/passwd | grep nobody
nobody:!:4294967294:4294967294::/:

bash-3.00# cat /etc/group | grep nobody
nobody:!:4294967294:nobody,lpd

Is this some OS issue? Has anyone faced this problem before?

Thanks.
Sukarna

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