On 19 July 2016 at 10:59, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@0pointer.de> wrote:
On Mon, 18.07.16 17:45, Sam Varshavchik (mrsam@courier-mta.com) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering writes:
>
> >On Fedora, we currently have a "nobody" user that is defined to UID
> >99. It's defined unconditionally like this. To my knowledge there's no
> >actual use of this user at all in Fedora however.
>
> I see distccd running as the nobody user.
>
> I also see dnsmasq running as the nobody user.

Urks, this looks broken. Don't our package guidelines prohibit this?



I don't see anything in the overall guidelines[1], the users_and_groups guidelines[2] or the systemd_unit guidelines[3]

A quick search of FPC tickets doesn't show any discussion there either.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd