httpd lineage

[Ric Werme]

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"?

When NFS V2 and V3 servers receive requests from userid 0, they map them to
userid 65534, (sorta not really -2), which is nobody.

So, create files owned by nobody, and remote superusers can play with them.

    -Ric Werme
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