Re: Bad Advise
Philip Yzarn de Louraille (yzarn@mozart.lahabra.chevron.com)
Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:28:46 -0700
On Jul 26, 2:26pm, Mark Moraes wrote:
> Subject: Re: Bad Advise
> | 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.
>-- End of excerpt from Mark Moraes
In this case, `nobody` really maps to `everybody` !