Re: RFC: Fixing the "nobody" user?

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On Mon, 18.07.16 17:45, Sam Varshavchik (mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering writes:
> 
> >On Fedora, we currently have a "nobody" user that is defined to UID
> >99. It's defined unconditionally like this. To my knowledge there's no
> >actual use of this user at all in Fedora however.
> 
> I see distccd running as the nobody user.
> 
> I also see dnsmasq running as the nobody user.

Urks, this looks broken. Don't our package guidelines prohibit this?

Lennart

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