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Re: BUG in /etc/pinforc (Attn: pinfo maintainer)
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:55:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: BUG in /etc/pinforc (Attn: pinfo maintainer)
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0408301049130.24572@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>
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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