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.TH NOBODY 8 "Jul 30, 2010" "" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
.SH NAME
nobdy \- for user root run a specific program as user nobody
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nobdy
.RB [ ls | find | false | true ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Nobody
drops its privileges if called by the user
.I root
by switching over to the user
.I nobdy
in a clean environment.
Currently the following programs are supported:
.IP \fBls\fP
\- list directory contents
.IP \fBtrue\fP
\- do nothing, successfully
.IP \fBfalse\fP
\- do nothing, unsuccessfully
.IP \fBfind\fP
\- search for files in a directory hierarchy
.SH NOTES
For the program \fBfind\fP the options
.IR -exec ,
.IR -execdir ,
.IR -ok ,
.I -okdir
are
.B not
supported.
.SH FILES
.IR /bin/ls ,
.br
.IR /bin/true ,
.br
.IR /bin/false ,
.br
.I  /usr/bin/find
.SH AUTHOR
2010 Werner Fink
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ls (1),
.BR find (1),
.BR su (1),
.BR sudo (8).

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