Use _distcc and don't advocate misusing the 'nobody' account. --- man/distccd.1.orig Thu Dec 24 13:49:03 2015 +++ man/distccd.1 Thu Dec 24 13:49:16 2015 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ distcc may be started either by root or any other user root, it gives away privileges and changes to the user specified by the .B --user -option, or the user called "distcc", or the user called "nobody". +option, or the user called "_distcc". .PP distccd does not have a configuration file; it's behaviour is controlled only by command-line options and requests from