Gary Winiger wrote: >> Comparing noaccess and daemon, I agree that there is little difference >> between the two. (ISTR however that NFS had some special handling >> around noaccess, or maybe that is nobody. I never did anything that >> relied on the special semantics, in any case.) > > NFS special cases nobody (and nobody4). I don't recall the > rules around user daemon. The rules around user noaccess is > that there are to be no objects owned by the "noaccess" user > or group. "daemon" being an historic user/group might have > objects owned by it. In fact user "bin" and "adm" are in group > "daemon".
No they aren't, daemon is in group bin and adm not the other way around. The daemon group has only the root user it in in the default /etc/group file. > AND worse, user "daemon" is in group "root". No it isn't. daemon uid primary group is 1 (other). The group root has no members and until recently root wasn't even in the root group. I think you need to have a look at the default /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, you have it all back to front (or is that front to back). -- Darren J Moffat
