Unix user nobody windows

Network File System maps root to nobody so local root cannot access everything like the remote root can. Your original edit was fine. It wasn't me who changed it. Ubuntu man claims: Some misguided programs or guides suggest that this user should be used for untrusted program execution or handling untrusted data.

This is bad advice. Seems to be a bit of a confusion about this uid. Show 15 more comments. The user nobody is reserved for NFS only. The Wiki entry is very wrong too.

PeterG PeterG 6 6 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. This answer does not cite any sources, and explicitly contradicts several of the other answers, which do cite sources.

The current bounty indicates this answer is particularly good, in which case it should cite some sources, or at list have some reasoning. The paragraph about NFS however, I do not grok. In addition the statement that files owned by nobody is meant to be inaccessible to anyone makes little sense, as file permissions are separate from ownership in UNIX.

I'm not saying that everything in the answer is wrong, just that elements of it makes little or no sense to me : — vidarlo. It's telling you that nobody is for NFS to use when mapping permissions, and that's the most important point to me. How NFS uses nobody is less interesting than the fact that it does use nobody. If a user reads the answer and man exports , he may be very confused.

Show 1 more comment. Source : Wikipedia - Nobody username The nobody -owned processes are able to send signals to each others and even ptrace each other in Linux, meaning that a nobody-owned process can read and write the memory of another nobody-owned process.

Alaa Ali Alaa Ali This is taken from systemd-nspawn, specifically the --bind mount option: Note that when this option is used in combination with --private-users, the resulting mount points will be owned by the nobody user.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Cygwin can do that. David Johnstone David Johnstone I realize I can use a myriad of Linux-like tools and terminals - but how can I do it from Windows natively? Don't I need a domain user in order to use it? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Good question. I just plugged it in, and began using it. Certainly could be. Based on progress so far, it is going to be another day or so of non-stop copying before that process is done. I had thought copying would be faster than it is, with the MyBook directly connected to the MyCloud.

I posted the same question directly to the WD support folks. I thank you for that. On the File Access tab, make sure the desired owner and group and other selections are set. Then select Reset on the left, and then the Reset permissions button.

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