Re: Bad Advise

[yzarn () mozart lahabra chevron com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)]

On Jul 26,  2:26pm, Mark Moraes wrote:
> Subject: Re: Bad Advise
>  | I was thinking about ownership of the whole ftp-tree by user `nobody'. Are
>  | there any benefits to using `root' instead of `nobody'?
>
> In general, I advise that one never lets anything be owned by `nobody'.
> The user `nobody' has a specific purpose -- it's the server-side mapping
> of root on an NFS client.  If you set anything on a server owned by
> `nobody', root on clients can access it, if the partition is NFS
> accessible.  And who knows when and how any partition might become NFS
> accessible.  The Network is the Computer, right? :-)
>
>       Mark.
> -- End of excerpt from Mark Moraes

In this case, `nobody` really maps to `everybody` !