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- From: dmcpheet@ems.cdc.com (Dennis McPheeters)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: User "nobody"
- Keywords: Userid nobody, Xstation manager, NFS, root
- Message-ID: <16882@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 17:26:02 GMT
- References: <92212.172142U22C5@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> <1992Jul31.125101.27852@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In article <1992Jul31.125101.27852@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>, graef@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Graef) writes:
- |> In article <92212.172142U22C5@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, Larry F Armbruster <U22C5@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes:
- |> > Can anyone give me a good reason not to delete user "nobody" from a unix
- |> > system?
- |>
- |> The Xstation manager-software uses the Userid nobody.
- |> If you chose another machine than the Xstation server on the initial screen
- |> on the Xstation, the login software performs an su to the user nobody
- |> and then an rlogin to the chosen machine.
- |>
- |> Uli
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- You bet! Also, NFS uses nobody when root running on an NFS mounted
- filesystem that was not exported with root authority.
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