On Sunday 17 September 2006 21:57, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I don't get any errors that would seem to indicate it requires a user > or group named "nobody". Now yes, in the sources it does try to drop > privileges by first looking up the "nobody" user in /etc/passwd, then > dropping all supplementary groups, then setting the primary group to > the GID of nobody, then setting the UID to the UID of nobody. And if > one of those fails, it prints a message. But if the lookup > (getpwnam) fails, it doesn't print or log anything, and when you > don't have a nobody user, the lookup is what's going to fail. > > Unless this was different in udev-097? What message are you seeing?
It was different. The getpwnam call was introduced in 098 (see my other post). Before that it unconditionally tried to become "nobody:nogroup". Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk
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