Re: User noboby and permissions...how and why

2003-08-30 Thread Robert Canary
nobody is just that "nobody" it is a user who doesn't exist and they are the lowest man on the chain of command. Most damons will run as nobody for the porpose of *not* giving the application any access to any resources (none whatsoever). Simply do their own thing and not interfer with anyon

User noboby and permissions...how and why

2003-08-29 Thread Timothy Stone
List, I'm learning about low-permission and restricted users and groups. I'm curious about users like "nobody" and groups like "nobody" What does a user like this look like? home? password? etc. I have seen a user report recently showing the nobody user in Mac OS X as something like: name: no