Re: Creating the nobody user

2006-09-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:42:15PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi folks, > > What does everyone here have in their /etc/passwd file for the 'nobody' > user? I've never had to create one before so I've come up with: > > nobody:x:99:99:nobody:: > As Bruce has said, what is in BLFS works for

Re: Creating the nobody user

2006-09-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi folks, > > What does everyone here have in their /etc/passwd file for the 'nobody' > user? I've never had to create one before so I've come up with: > > nobody:x:99:99:nobody:: Try: nobody:x:99:99:Unprivileged Nobody:/dev/null:/bin/false And for /etc/group: nogrou

Re: Creating the nobody user

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi, On Monday 18 September 2006 23:42, Matthew Burgess wrote: > What does everyone here have in their /etc/passwd file for the 'nobody' > user? I've never had to create one before so I've come up with: > > nobody:x:99:99:nobody:: I have "nobody:x:99:99:User nobody:/var/empty:/bin/false" > FWIW,