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"nobody""nobody"Posted Feb 12, 2008 1:21 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: "nobody" by bronson Parent article: LCA: Two talks on the state of X
Because NFS was the first thing to need such a user, so it's become traditional? (Isn't `daemon' the ID you run otherwise-low-privilege daemons as, anyway?)
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"nobody" Posted Feb 13, 2008 20:43 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] It's the UID you run a daemon as when you want it to have privileges to interfere with other daemons running as 'daemon'. :) Seriously... adduser --system is not hard! Give everything its own user!
"nobody" Posted Feb 14, 2008 12:49 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] But what if I had over 64K daemons running? ... oh, 32-bit uids. What if I had over four billion daemons running? (seriously, with KDE it's only a matter of time! I suppose those all run as the KDE desktop user though.) ;}
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