Understanding the ‘nobody’ user in Linux and Unix systems is essential for anyone managing services and processes. On these systems, processes typically run under specific users for better isolation and security. When a service doesn’t have a dedicated user, it may fall back to the ‘nobody’ user, which is a generic, non-privileged account. For related configuration topics, you may want to check out how to change a user’s default shell, share aliases and functions between Bash and Zsh, or set environment paths for csh/tcsh.
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