User named 'nobody'

[Jay Culley]

Is this a service account or can it be deleted? How did it get there? It's not a SAMBA, FTP user.
nas:x:100:100:nas:/dev/null:/dev/null
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:/dev/null
tor:x:65533:65533:tor:/dev/null:/dev/null

FW 384.12

Thanks

 

[Olivier]

Is this a service account or can it be deleted? How did it get there? It's not a SAMBA, FTP user.
nas:x:100:100:nas:/dev/null:/dev/null
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:/dev/null
tor:x:65533:65533:tor:/dev/null:/dev/null

FW 384.12

Thanks

That's a "special" account in Unix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_(username)

 

[RMerlin]

It's used for dropping privileges. Avahi, dnsmasq and a few others use it, for security purposes.

 

[Jay Culley]

Ah, Service account, I will leave it alone, Thanks Merlin!