nobody has negative uid
A friend has an older version of Suse running kernel 2.0.35. Besides other problems, I noticed that the nobody user has a user id number of -2 and a group number of -2 also. The group exists and the only member is root. The home dir is set as /tmp Is this normal for an older version of SuSE? The newer versions are user id 65534 and grp id of 65534 with home dir /var/lib/nobody Also, how can I disable ftp on the server. I've disabled anonymous ftp with a ; in front of ftp in etc/passwd. That stopped anonymous ftp connections but, people have been connecting with wuftpd yet there is no record of any file transfer in the xferlog. thanks
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 05:14, Bill Wright wrote:
Also, how can I disable ftp on the server. I've disabled anonymous ftp with a ; in front of ftp in etc/passwd. That stopped anonymous ftp connections but, people have been connecting with wuftpd yet there is no record of any file transfer in the xferlog.
Assuming you have a default setup, wuftpd is launched from inetd. To disable it, edit /etc/inetd.conf, find the line with wu.ftpd on it (it starts with "ftp") and comment it out with #. Then do killall -HUP inetd Anders
Bill Wright writes:
A friend has an older version of Suse running kernel 2.0.35.
Besides other problems, I noticed that the nobody user has a user id number of -2 and a group number of -2 also. The group exists and the only member is root. The home dir is set as /tmp Is this normal for an older version of SuSE? The newer versions are user id 65534 and grp id of 65534 with home dir /var/lib/nobody
-2 expressed as a 16 bit unsigned value is equal to 65534. Some app is probably not printing it correctly.
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