httpd lineage

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 05:25 pm, TARogue wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> > The username is relatively arbitrary, so long as it's not nobody or
> > something these days.
>
> OK, so what's wrong with "nobody"?

What other processes might appropriately use nobody?  Why should other 
processes run with the same privilege profile and environment as a web 
server.  That'd be sort of like just having a daemon user that runs all the 
system processes - why bother with any privilege separation if that's the 
plan?
-N