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Questions tagged [nobody]

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why is php-fpm running as nobody?

I recently installed php-fpm on my server (CENTOS 6.5 x86_64 standard, WHM 11.44.1 (build 7)) following the instructions here: http://infoliser.com/how-to-configure-apache-2-2-with-php-fpm-using-whm-cpanel-and-easyapache/ The server API, as revealed…
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is it safe to group a user under "nobody" group

I have created a group called "devs". All our coders are grouped under "devs" so that they can access our websites which are all under public_html folder. I changed the group of public_hml to "devs", however, the server seem to override this, now…
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Best way to create a user with no password

What is the good way to create a user with no password? By no password, I mean an account, that would be usable only by the root account using the su/sudo commands (like the "nobody" user used by Apache or Nginx). I've read that putting a * in the…
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NFS4: what effects changes to /etc/idmapd.conf?

We have been wrestling with the problem where our NFS4 mount on our RHEL 6.3 clients show file ownership as "nobody", and where we see "nss_getpwnam: name 'blah' does not map into domain 'localdomain'" in /var/log/messages. We know that the fix is…
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webserver running as nobody cannot resolve domain names

If i try to run the following: through the web server I get a an "php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo" error. If I run the same file from the shell with: php test.php then I get…
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Why are emails sent to root redirected to nobody?

$ uname -a Linux xxxx 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/aliases # See man 5 aliases for format postmaster: root root: root@xxxx.xxxx email received by nobody. $ sudo mail -f …
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Main Apache pid as root, even though set up to be nobody?

I believe I had set everything up correctly when I had built the server (maybe it was a pre-configured LAMP that the VPS host Linode supplied that set things up) It seems that every Apache process runs under the user nobody which is what I had…
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Cannot edit files owned by 'nobody'?

I created a new user named bob, and gave it its own /home/ folder on my server so I can SSH into that instead of root. I had added bob into the nogroup group as I had read somewhere (or poorly interpreted it) as allowing me to edit nobody's files,…
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Linux - Run a daemon as 'nobody'

I have a daemon sitting in my root directory that currently is being run as root. However, since this program can read the file system, this is clearly a security problem. How can I run it as nobody so that I can resolve this problem? Doing "su -…
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NFS mounts folder with NOBODY:NOBODY permissions

Hy All, Please help me quick. I have a CentOS 6 server with NFS installed. In my /etc/exports file: /shares/nfs 10.0.0.0/16(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) exportfs -a was done On my clients I have this in my…
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nobody user/group with NIS/NFS

Software overview Machine A(NIS server): CentOS 6.2 Machine B:(NFS server) CentoS 6.2 Client machines: OpenSuse 12.3, CentOS 6.4 and CentOS 5.6 Introduction and setup Machine A is an NIS server which serves a group of client machines. Home…
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Many httpd process run by Nobody user

Our VPS is running CentOS, 1GB memory, 3CPUs WHM/cpanel installed. We are running wordpress website. We got internal server error. top 2114 mysql 20 0 1849m 30m 2900 S 3.3 3.0 1:46.34 mysqld 31344 root 20 0 155m 4876…
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Netgear ReadyNAS 316 Share getting Nobody NoGroup Permissions on Ubuntu?

We have a Netgear ReadyNAS 316 set up to replace an older ReadyNAS Ultra 6 which died, but we're having trouble getting permissions working as they did on the Ultra 6. Basically we're using the NAS for backing up many terabytes of large audio files…
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Suspicious process 'find' running under user nobody

At startup I noticed my machine was under heavy load. Opened up a terminal and top to find a process running the command find under user nobody that was using 90%+ of my memory. I killed it immediately. Has my machine been compromised? How can I…
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