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Show which processes are listening to which ports
Authored by: morespace54 on Apr 27, '07 11:08:21AM

Hi...

sorry but what about:

mysqld 205 nobody 4u IPv4 0x01f62f50 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:50701 (LISTEN)

I know it must be MySQL, but being run by 'nobody'?
Could that be a problem?



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Show which processes are listening to which ports
Authored by: fbitterlich on May 03, '07 12:21:13PM

On the contrary, this is a good thing. Some processes (like mysqld) drop their privileges after launchinf and acquiring a socket to listen on, running under an unprivileged "nobody" user ID. So if the security of that process is compromised somehow, at least the attacker cannot easily exploit the elevated privileges of that process to do more damage.



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