Purpose of the nobody user

Hi, I have a question about the purpose of the nobody user. The Debian wiki suggests that nobody:nogroup can be used as a general-purpose unprivileged user: https://wiki.debian.org/SystemGroups However, this Stack Exchange answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/674397 and the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki

Re: Purpose of the nobody user

On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 17:40 +0100, Tom Vajzovic wrote: > I have checked the Debian policy manual for an authoritative answer, > but it does not say anything apart from that nobody must exist and have > the id 65534. > > So can someone please enlighten me as to which might be correct? > > The reas