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passwd: add an unprivileged user for automountd
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Authored by kevans on Apr 28 2026, 4:21 AM.
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This will be used to do some limited privilege dropping while parsing
map files in the next commit.

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Is there a reason not to use "nobody"?

Is there a reason not to use "nobody"?

Hmm, I didn't really capture it in the commit message. My theory was that there's a reasonable chance that someone may want to grant automountd some permissions (e.g., maybe they want it to be able to read /dev disk nodes)- the associated patch tries to preserve its supplementary groups just for that.