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Login named "nobody" [solved]


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I have found a user named "nobody" on my system. I've no idea how this got here. How can I remove it? Why would it have appeared?

 

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"nobody" is usually used for ftp servers etc. Just like games, rpc, ftp, rpm, shutdown, bin, sync etc. No real need to delete it, its harmless.

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It's actually a security feature and not a security problem, so you definitely don't want to delete it. It's a very unprivileged user, and all server processes that can work in such a limited environment are run as that user, limiting the damage they could do if compromised.

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