On Tue, 19.07.16 11:17, James Hogarth (james.hogarth(a)gmail.com) wrote:
On 19 July 2016 at 10:59, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 18.07.16 17:45, Sam Varshavchik (mrsam(a)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
Hmm, OK. I filed an FPC ticket about this now:
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/642
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat