BUG in /etc/pinforc (Attn: pinfo maintainer)

Joshua Daniel Franklin joshuadfranklin@gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 05:39:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:52:17 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Every time I run pinfo, I get the following message:
> 
> Security warning: Unable to get GID of group called: nobody
> 
> Looking in /etc/pinforc, I see
> 
> SAFE-USER=nobody
> SAFE-GROUP=nobody
> 
> AFAIK, "nobody" is not a standard user or group on Cygwin.  I'm guessing
> it doesn't complain about the "nobody" user only because I created one for
> running apache.
> 
> I don't know what the right values would be here, but thought I'd report
> this.

Hmm, I'll look into it for the next release of pinfo.

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