hea Posted December 7, 2002 Report Share Posted December 7, 2002 Hi there I have problems with acessing UserDrake. The message "Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exists" appears. Userconf just tells me i have to be "root". The only program that works is the Kuser. My first question is: does it matter wich of these i use, or perhaps i can edit files manually just as well? Second question: does anyone know why ecspesially the UserDrake fails to start. (The files mentioned in the error message are there ok) Third question: are there any good description on users and groups i.e. wich users should be default on your system and what are they doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hea Posted December 8, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2002 Answering myself: ok i was a bit quick asking; the two files were temporary. Deletet them and OK. But still, i wonder e.g. who is nobody. Is this user added by default in a Linux system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueTak Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Thanks for asking. I've had the same problem. Now, i know what to do...! By the way, nobody is created by default. It's the owner of public directories like tmp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonChild Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 User nobody is used by a lot of daemons to run specific processes. httpd (also known as apache in mandrake) is runs its processes as nobody. perl runs CGIs as nobody (unless otherwise specified) Many many many more processes use nobody to run stuff. Check nobody's groups and permissions to get a clear view on what she can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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