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- Title: Installation and Setup of WN
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- ("chown nobody wn.log") and finally set the
- and make sure that the user nobody has permission to create
- The safest practice is to use the numeric UID of nobody for
- perhaps other systems user nobody cannot be used. In this
- after doing so it will change its user id to that of nobody
- nobody needs to have only read permission to your server
- nobody should not have ownership or write access of the
- wnd stream tcp nowait nobody /path/wnd wnd
- wnd stream tcp nowait nobody /path/wn.rc wn.rc
- It is important to run wnd as nobody (the fifth
- nobody is to create the files yourself and change their
- ownership to the user nobody. This can be done, for
- /usr/etc/chown nobody logfile
- "logfile". The second makes nobody the owner
- and the third gives nobody (and no one else except
- chown nobody logfile
- nobody. It does this immediately after connecting to port
- nobody does not have permission to create files or you have
- Title: Creating your WN data directory
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- be owned by nobody or whatever user id the server runs under
- This because the nobody id should have the minimum
- directory and the only permission nobody should have for
- user like nobody) wnd or wnsd will
- user id (e.g. nobody) under which the server is running.
- nobody (and that's not a double negative). The exception is
- nobody under whose identity the server runs. The log file
- Title: Security on the WN Server
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- there is a user called nobody with minimal permissions. The
- numeric user_id of nobody is a good choice and is the
- those of the unprivileged user nobody. Likewise if
- nobody.
- The server should be run as nobody (the default) and the
- Title: Configuration File for the WN Package
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- * HPUX users to use a different user id than the one belonging to 'nobody'.
- Title: Command Line Options for the WN Server
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- usually the numeric id of the user "nobody"; the
- "nobody") or edited
- Title: Configuration Macros for WN
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- Title: Changelog for WN
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- userid to "nobody". This makes root the owner of wnpid.
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<john@math.northwestern.edu>
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Last modified: Sat June 18 2005
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