On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 11:04:32AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > > > On 01/10/2018 05:46 AM, Jan Kurik wrote: > > = System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RenameNobodyUser > A nit... The proposed rename looks like: > nobody:x:65534:65534:Kernel Overflow User:/:/sbin/nologin > > Now that this is going to be used for NFS, should the user information > field be more generic? > > Because with NFS is not an overflow its a id mapping. Maybe just 'Kernel User'? > > Again... just an incredibly small nit! ;-) Hmm, good point. Maybe "Kernel Unmappable User" ? nss-systemd in it's code currently uses "User Nobody", but that doesn't explain anything, and I think that both pieces of information are important to convey: that it is a kernel concept, and that it is for overflow/unmapped users that are hence anonymous. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
