On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 08:12 +0400, Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
nobody it the user NFS uses for its functioning. It is a valid Linux user. Its GID is 65535 I think.
grep nobody /etc/passwd
It's a popularly used user-name, but it's not really correct to say that it's a "valid Linux user". Nor is there any established norm, AFAIK, to use 65535 as its numeric id.
Just correcting...
best wishes, jaju