> Again, I have no clue what locate(1) is doing, but given this I > suspect it is wrong and warrants some looking into.
locate is trying to build a database of all the files that _everyone_ can see. > And this I think is wrong. There should be no general unprivileged user. That is not what locate is using nobody for. It is using it to find all files that are globally visible. > Am I the only one who sees this parallel between the numerous _daemond > users and there respective daemons and nobody and NFS ? Oh, we should have a _locate user? And what uid would you give it, so that it would not collide with another uid in use in a NFS + YP enviroment? The normal answer has been to give it 32767. > If so, can someone please enlighten me about the purpose of nobody? Is it > going to be used (do we want to encourage the usage that is) for something > else or new ? man locate
