[solved]pppoe shows the user as nobody

rohankolay · 2010-07-20 08:32:53

Hi,
I use pppoe-start from root to start my adsl connection. When i do ps -ef i see the user name as nobody for this process.
Below is the entry what i see
"nobody 2931 2928 0 14:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/pppoe -p /var/run/pppo..."
Please advice on what to do to get this fixed or is it a normal thing and doesn't require a fix?

Last edited by rohankolay (2010-07-23 17:55:45)

karol · 2010-07-20 08:39:59

I 'happens', some daemons are run like that IIRC.
Does it work OK?
/etc/group:

...
power:x:98:
nobody::99:
users::100:karol
dbus:x:81:
...

See: nobody - that's the user running that process.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-20 08:40:38)

rohankolay · 2010-07-21 14:55:46

Everything works fine but is there any vulnerability with process being run as nobody?

.:B:. · 2010-07-21 14:57:49

'Nobody' is the name of the user. Why do you think it would be vulnerable?

karol · 2010-07-21 15:02:18

.:B:. wrote:

'Nobody' is the name of the user. Why do you think it would be vulnerable?

I remember that a year ago, when I switched to Linux, I also was taken aback by 'nobody' running daemons :-)

Arch Linux

#1 2010-07-20 08:32:53

[solved]pppoe shows the user as nobody

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