Re: RFC: Fixing the "nobody" user?
[Posted July 27, 2016 by jake]
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| Simo Sorce <simo-AT-redhat.com> |
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| Re: RFC: Fixing the "nobody" user? |
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| Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:55:03 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 07:39 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Like I said, I'm thinking of "rsync", "tar", and "star". Also,
> people.... do some interesting scripting to detect things like failed
> NFS configurations. I'm not saying that's a blocker, but shifting it
> to overlap with the current "nfsnobody" is likely to break some
> people's tools in the field, especially if they run the latest Fedora
> alongside RHEL, CentOS, or previous Fedora releases.
The breakage for some will be un-breakage for someone else, and being
consistent with the kernel point of view and other distributions, in
this case, is more important IMO.
Simo.
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