On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Ravindra Jaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 08:12 +0400, Nadeem M. Khan wrote: > > > nobody it the user NFS uses for its functioning. It is a valid Linux > > user. Its GID is 65535 I think. > > > > grep nobody /etc/passwd > > It's a popularly used user-name, but it's not really correct to say that > it's a "valid Linux user". Nor is there any established norm, AFAIK, to > use 65535 as its numeric id.
It has an entry in the passwd file. That makes it a valid linux user. 65535 or 65536 is its GID on RH based systems. Thats default. You can ofcourse change the name, the GID, or whatever. Whats there to correct? PS: This is a common interview question. Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
