On Tue, 19.07.16 11:17, James Hogarth (james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 19 July 2016 at 10:59, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > > I don't see anything in the overall guidelines[1], the users_and_groups > guidelines[2] or the systemd_unit guidelines[3] > > A quick search of FPC tickets doesn't show any discussion there either. > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd Hmm, OK. I filed an FPC ticket about this now: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/642 Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
