On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, csl sales wrote:
>
> If I look in Users, all the users are disabled except myself and root.
>
> In messages I get PAM_pwd (su) session opened by user nobody(uid=99) 15 minutes
>later this closed.....this happens every night.....What is the nobody user for? and
>should it be enabled? as presently the only user enabled is root and my login. is
>this anything to do with Bind or secondary DNS server trying to get updates?
>
Check the cron scripts that run nightly. I think news runs part of it's
stuff as user nobody, but I an not sure. (Look for su -c nobody <command>
in /etc/cron.daily)
Mikkel
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