Q: deleted user nobody
While investigating another problem, I foolishly deleted the user "nobody" in the terminal. Should I recreate it, or not bother? If yes, what are the other account details for "nobody" please?
Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Posted on Nov 15, 2012 3:31 AM
by baltwo,Solvedanswer
Michael Bowyer wrote:
While investigating another problem, I foolishly deleted the user "no" in the terminal. Should I recreate it, or not bother? If yes, what are the other account details for "no" please?
dscacheutil -q user
indicates:
name: no
password: *
uid: -2
gid: -2
dir: /var/empty
shell: /usr/bin/false
gecos: Unprivileged User
Posted on Nov 15, 2012 6:24 PM