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Re: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'
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- Subject: Re: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'
- From: Christopher Abbey <cabbey at bresnanlink dot net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:54:06 -0600 (CST)
Tomorrow, Guy Worthington wrote:
> FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'
[...snip...]
> Can someone please help me identify myself?
it's not you that getpwnam failed to find, it's "nobody" which by default
isn't in /etc/passwd. On Linux anyway squid changes to user nobody the
last I checked. Unfortunately squid for cygwin doesn't have any of the
docs bundled with it yet, but I'll bet this will show up in it's install
directions. ;)
in the mean time you can create a line like this (I've not tested this):
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
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