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Re: is nobody a security hole?

Often, I see it set to something like /nonexistant with a shell set to
/bin/false or something.

Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org> writes:

> nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh
> 
> I've been wondering if having a user with a world-writable home directory
> like this is a security hole. So far all I've thought of is this:
> 
> joey@kite:/tmp>echo "echo ha! I gotcha" > /tmp/.profile
> 
> (Then wait for root to su to nobody with a login shell)
> 
> root@kite:/tmp>su - nobody
> ha! I gotcha
> $ 
> 
> I think this by itself should be enough to make us change nobody's home
> directory to something secure.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
> 
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