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Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

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  Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody". Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-11-21 16:30 +0100
    Re: Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody". Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-11-21 18:30 +0100

#202660 — Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

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I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade.

I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why?

(I thought that "Nobody" was set up, to give "little or no" Privileges to
something "Automagic").

Thank you!

Kenneth Parker

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On 2018-11-21 10:25 -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote:

> I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade.
>
> I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why?

Previous versions of systemd used to create it, a mistake that has just
been corrected:

,----
| systemd (239-12) unstable; urgency=high
| 
|   [ Martin Pitt ]
|   * Fix wrong "nobody" group from sysusers.d.
|     Fix our make-sysusers-basic sysusers.d generator to special-case the
|     nobody group. "nobody" user and "nogroup" group both have the same ID
|     65534, which is the only special case for Debian's static users/groups.
|     So specify the gid explicitly, to avoid systemd-sysusers creating a
|     dynamic system group for "nobody".
`----

So, nothing to worry about.

Cheers,
       Sven

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