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-...
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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", ...
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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'"...
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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 ...
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webserver running as nobody cannot resolve domain names
If i try to run the following:
<?php echo file_get_contents("http://www.yahoo.com/index.html"); ?>
through the web server I get a an "php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo" error.
If I run ...
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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: [email protected]
email ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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NFS mounts folder with NOBODY:NOBODY permissions
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 /etc/fstab:...
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Many httpd process run by Nobody user [closed]
Our VPS is running CentOS, 1GB memory, 3CPUs WHM/cpanel installed. We are running wordpress website. We got internal server error.
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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 ...
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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 ...