Does anybody know the answer........

BajaNick · 08-01-2003, 07:45 PM

I have posted on 4 different forums other than LQ.org and i have got zero responses to this question.
My question is, What is NFSnobody and do i need it? I deleted the user nfsnobody and it dosnt seem to have done anything to my system (at least from what i can see) Thanks for any replies
I am running RH9, gnome, Opera.

brice2nice · 08-01-2003, 08:10 PM

You may try a reall distro ! (Debian. Mandrake)

BajaNick · 08-01-2003, 08:20 PM

A real distro?
I had mandrake and it sucked donkey ba**s

Thymox · 08-01-2003, 08:29 PM

Brice, that wan't very helpful, now was it?

Baja - I believe that you only need nfsnobody if you intend to allow anonymous users (ie ones that have not got a local username) to access your nfs shares. If you are not going to share anything over nfs, then I don't see why you need the user - however, is it doing any harm if you don't use it?

brice2nice · 08-01-2003, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by BajaNick
A real distro?
I had mandrake and it sucked donkey ba**s

Lesser than red hat but its not the purpose.

BajaNick · 08-01-2003, 09:45 PM

I looked up NFS and its Network File Sharing, I dont think i need it, but i had no idea what it was or what nsfnobody was to begin with thats why i asked, my other post asked what nfs is? and the other one asked if it was bad to delete nfsnobody, 2 completely different questions.

brice2nice · 08-01-2003, 10:40 PM

nfs (roxor

) is futil if you dont have 2 unix box at home or if you have melting os at home.

In my flat I have 3 box under linux and I enjoy access to my files on each machine to another with a simple mount then cd
& other but at my parents house my brother iworks under with ; here I use a ftp because samba suxe (because netbios suxe ))

scott_R · 08-01-2003, 10:46 PM

It doesn't hurt to delete users you're not using, and can even be good security policy to remove users (even "nobody" users) that you arent using. On the flip side, it's never really a good idea (or policy) to remove things before you know why they're there. This time you got lucky, as you aren't using NFS, but next time might be different.

BajaNick · 08-01-2003, 10:54 PM

LOL, your aboslutely right scott. It was really annoying during the login screen so i took a chance, lol.

scott_R · 08-03-2003, 05:05 AM

depending on your 'dm', you should be able to setup who shows up and who doesn't, fairly easily. That way, you don't end up with every hairbrained account cluttering up your screen.

BajaNick · 08-03-2003, 10:46 AM

I am the only one using the computer, its just a home system with dsl.