On Sunday March 25 2007 22:30, Dan Nicholson wrote: > Also, I'm wondering if there would be problems running scripts, etc., > when HOME=/dev/null. The dummy user we create for coreutils is given > /root as it's home directory. Robert, do you see any issues running > the testsuites as nobody?
I used this for passwd: nobody:x:65534:65534:Unprivileged User:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin And this for group: nogroup:x:65533: nobody:x:65534: The home directory doesn't seem to matter unless you try to login (use su --login). 'HOME=/nonexistent' is in nobody's environment, but it doesn't seem to bother anything. One Coreutils test didn't pass, but I don't think it was related to these nobody users/groups. Bash's test suite can run as nobody: su-tools nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make tests" but the Bash sources need to be writtable by nobody first. It passed without errors. robert
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