[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cron best practice

[James Carlson]

Bryan Iotti wrote:
> Very good question, curious myself
> 
> Could it be run as user "nobody"?

Create any users you like, but don't use "nobody" for this.  That one is
special: it's the default NFS "anonymous" access UID, used for IDs that
cannot be mapped into local users by the NFS server.  Overloading it to
mean something else is a Bad Idea.

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