Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
At the moment I'm working on securing a SusE 6.4 box, and I'm wondering about the user "nobody"
Don't mess with it, it is the user that is run for some system tasks, I was watch a cron job run the other day with top, and it was user nobody.
I see that it has /bin/bash set as a login shell, and If I try to login with ssh from another host, it does indeed want a valid password.
What is the default password?
You can "su" to nobody from root. If you want you could set a password, but that would defeat the purpose. It is just the lowest possible user on the system, used to do various tasks.
What is this user really for?
I know that apache runs as user wwwrun, group nobody. USER nobody Group nobody is a way of allowing tasks to run with a very low set of permissions.
What will it break if I remove the user, or change the password (do any daemons or programs se it?)? Does it need a shell? I see it has no home. If no, can I set the shell to /bin/true (or should that be /bin/false)?
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