Paul Rogers wrote:
Two questions, if I may:
1) Group "nogroup" is created here. Conventionally, GIDs are named the same as their
corresponding UIDs. I discovered vsftpd really wants "nobody". What's the rationale
here?
Where is that documented? vsftpd wants a USER nopriv_user:
This is the name of the user that is used by vsftpd when it wants to be
totally unprivileged. Note that this should be a dedicated user, rather
than nobody. The user nobody tends to be used for rather a lot of
important things on most machines.
Default: nobody
I see no mention of a specific group in the vsftpd source. We do say to
use nopriv_user=vsftpd in the configuration.
2) Why is the messagebus user/group created here? The dbus package isn't
installed until BLFS, and a grep of my existing build scripts doesn't show it
used as a parameter. What's its use in the very Spartan base LFS system?
To be consistent with the systemd book.
-- Bruce
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