``nobody'' in 4.3

Keith Sklower sklower at okeeffe.berkeley.edu
Thu Feb 2 19:18:06 AEST 1989


In Sun Spots V7I112m2 David Comay (dsc at izimbra.css.gov) writes:
> i believe one of the reasons `nobody' was added in 4.3 was specifically to
> support a `public fast find' feature, but i don't remember.

According to Keith Bostic (who actually had muchly to do with the
production of the final 4.3 tape), the ``nobody'' user was added to 4.3 as
a user id for daemons such as fingerd to run as.



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