Re: Bad Advise
Mark Moraes (Mark-Moraes@deshaw.com)
Tue, 26 Jul 94 14:26:10 -0400
| I was thinking about ownership of the whole ftp-tree by user `nobody'. Are
| there any benefits to using `root' instead of `nobody'?
In general, I advise that one never lets anything be owned by `nobody'.
The user `nobody' has a specific purpose -- it's the server-side mapping
of root on an NFS client. If you set anything on a server owned by
`nobody', root on clients can access it, if the partition is NFS
accessible. And who knows when and how any partition might become NFS
accessible. The Network is the Computer, right? :-)
Mark.