"Nobody" showing up in permissions

I recently has permissions problems and under "sharing and permissions" of some files, I see I have:

admin = Read & Write
staff = Read & Write
everyone = Read & Write
*nobody = Read read only*

Where did this "nobody" come from?
*How can "nobody" have read only access?*

This is only happening on customer supplied files that are emailed to the dept on a PC and get placed in a "customer supplied files" shared folder

Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jan 7, 2010 10:17 AM

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Jan 7, 2010 11:17 AM in response to Jack Ball

Nobody is an automatic system assignment to files that have no known owner. By default the nobody user is read only. This can occur when migrating data from an older version of OS X where the newer version's permissions, users, and groups have changed. It can also happen when transferring files from another operating system that does not implement file permissions in the same way or not at all.

In the example you provided only users in the admin and staff groups can read or write the file.

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"Nobody" showing up in permissions

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