[systemd-devel] Github systemd issue 6237

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Montag, den 10.07.2017, 12:57 +0200 schrieb Reindl Harald:
> 
> Am 10.07.2017 um 12:55 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> > 
> > 
> > The "nobody" user has special semantics on Linux: it's where things
> > are mapped to that can't be mapped otherwise. It's used by user
> > namspacing, by NFS and others. It's really not a good idea, to permit
> > random services to create and access files under that ID
> 
> and run it as root is a better idea?
> seriously?

This is moot. If you specify a user that is considered wrong for whatever
reason the service must fail. Whether we disagree about who decide what is
a valid user name also does not matter. You cannot substitute users for
any reason.

	Regards
		Oliver