[Gllug] Guest account for Linux??

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Richard Jones whispered secretively:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:44:32AM +0600, Emon wrote:
>> I thought there was a especial limited user (by default) called 'nobody' 
>> & a especial limited group (by default) called 'nogroup'...... is there 
>> any to use them as guest account?? if so how?? especially in KDE??
> 
> Don't use 'nobody' -- it's a special account used by some daemons and
> is not supposed to have write access to any files.

Well, it's only supposed to be used to access NFS when root-squashing
(although I'm currently running some unprivileged Munin plugins as it
as well: I should fix that).

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