On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:24:58PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Indeed no - I've checked that "nobody" and "nobody:nobody" works.

That's what I expected.

> (Does the former imply that later as "nobody" is the group of the "nobody"
> user).

It should.

> I don't have any idea of security implications of this.

I don't know a way to abuse that (yet). But maybe it could be utilizied
to exploit another security whole by finding out the port which is
used by another application easily.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/