How do I become the user nobody?

roger19 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-30-2006

If I'm not root and just a regular user on a server, how could I switch to the user nobody. I tried making a shell in php and setting the owner to nobody with chown but apparently you need to be root to do that. What could I do to become nobody?
Also is it possible to login to a ssh shell as the nobody user?

-Roger

BOFH · #2 (**permalink**) 10-30-2006

The account would have to have a valid password and home directory (well home dir isn't vital, still). As a user you can't check /etc/shadow to see if the account has a password however typically nobody is a system account and you don't generally have access to become that user.

What are you trying to accomplish? Usually the service account are used to manage daemons and such.

Carl

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