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From:
"Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: new multimedia/dms
To:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:44:18 -0600

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        $ fstat -p $(pgrep dms) | grep internet
        nobody   dms         1660    3* internet6 stream tcp 0x0 *:1338

I don't like the reuse of uid nobody, because it is

1) historically shared abusively by chroot / privdrop daemons
   (btw, this was not entirely our fault..)

2) on a variety of other systems, the uid aliases with the NFS nobody uid
   which isn't without other quirky behaviours

So why does this not have a unique uid?