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Date:      Fri, 05 Sep 1997 07:54:34 +1000
From:      Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
To:        Bill Grunfelder <wjgrun@cyberwar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: quota for userid nobody?
Message-ID:  <340F2E19.4D31281F@chalmers.com.au>
References:  <3.0.3.32.19970904151716.00850200@pop.cyberwar.com>

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Bill Grunfelder wrote:

> What problems, if any will I have if I put a quota on userid
> "nobody" on
> the /tmp, /var, and /home partitions?
>
> I've got a user who has found a crafty way to bypass his
> quota by using
> the web server to create "nobody" owned files...

Just out of curiosity, how is the user doing this? The
'nobody' files should then only be in the webdocs directory
anyway, where they would not be of much use I would have
thought. I don't use nobody anywhere on the system myself. I
have a user www, with password, and start httpd as root, it
then switches to www, as per the instructions in the httpd
(Apache) docs.

Either go to the trouble yourself, or simply lock out the user
!

cheers,
Robert


>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill
> ....
> ..................................................................
>
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> Administrator
> wjgrun@cyberwar.com                                Cyber
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