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From: sklower@okeeffe.berkeley.edu (Keith Sklower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: ``nobody'' in 4.3
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Date: 2 Feb 89 09:18:06 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 12:31:05 -0800
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 133, message 13 of 13

In Sun Spots V7I112m2 David Comay (dsc@izimbra.css.gov) writes:
> i believe one of the reasons `nobody' was added in 4.3 was specifically to
> support a `public fast find' feature, but i don't remember.

According to Keith Bostic (who actually had muchly to do with the
production of the final 4.3 tape), the ``nobody'' user was added to 4.3 as
a user id for daemons such as fingerd to run as.