Re: F28 System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:21:32AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:46:13AM +0100, Jan Kurik wrote:
> > Use "nobody:nobody" as the names for the kernel overflow UID:GID pair,
> > and retire the old "nfsnobody" name and the old "nobody:nogroup" pair
> > with 99:99 numbers
> 
> See previous thread on this proposal from two years ago:
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/Q5GCKZ7Q7PAUQW66EV7IBJGSRJWYXBBH/?sort=date
> 
> There's some good discussion there. I'm still in favor. 

Right. The same people participate in the discussion and the same
things are said. The funny thing is that not the same people are
always saying the same thing.

The situation got both more complicated (because of nss-systemd)
and simpler (because of the one concrete effect of that discussion,
i.e. FPC forbidding the use of "nobody").

I added this link to the Change page.

Zbyszek
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