Unprivileged user?

[Michael S. Fischer]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Ricardo Newbery
<ric at digitalmarbles.com> wrote:
>  Assuming that "nobody" is an available user on your system, then is
>  the "-u user" option for varnishd superfluous?

Who's to say that "nobody" is an unprivileged user?

/etc/passwd:

nobody:*:0:0:alias for root:...

Well-engineered software doesn't make potentially false assumptions
about the environment in which it runs.

--Michael