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A Z (arek_z@yahoo.com)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Why not run these as root ? ( or system )
> Maybe someone else could help us out on that one.
>
Thing are run as "nobody" when you want the stuff to be safe. Case in
point, the web server. It should be run as "nobody" or as a regular
user with no super user rights, because people can DOS your web server.
root has unlimited process, while regular users and nobody has a limit
(255, I think).
I believe the user group program also uses nobody as it's the default
regular user, but isn't really a user, in that nobody shouldn't have a
/home directory.
I seem to not be able to log in to "nobody", but I can "su" into it,
that's normal I believe. Again I am not an expert on this, but I know
that is the use of "nobody" to run daemons that don't need to be run as
root.
-arek
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