On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 23:09:13 +0100, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello Bill, > > the override was intended to make a few commands as low privileged > as possible. Most of the files under the subdirectory /var/lib/wims are > owner by the system user "wims", which is created for the sake of the > package wims. Instead of making nobody:nogroup to own these commands, > I may create another pair of user/group, for instance nowims/nowims and > use this pair to achieve the same goal. > Why don't you use root:root then?
> Do you agree with this possibility? > > By the way, please can you give me some link about the problem which > arises with the usage of nobody/nogroup? > random system daemon runs as nobody:nogroup (because it's not supposed to have access to the filesystem). You've just given it permissions it wasn't supposed to have. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
