24 Mar
2008
24 Mar
'08
5:43 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Ravindra Jaju ravindra.jaju@gmail.com wrote:
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.
It has an entry in the passwd file. That makes it a valid linux user. 65535 or 65536 is its GID on RH based systems. Thats default. You can ofcourse change the name, the GID, or whatever.
Whats there to correct?
PS: This is a common interview question.
Regards, NMK.