NOBODY(8)

NOBODY(8) 💅✨ public — okay bestie, let’s go

okay so this is the NOBODY(8) page from the Linux System Administrator's Manual, and the vibe is literally all about public running specific TeX programs with different privilege vibes. No cap, every detail is staying. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

• public — for user root run specific TeX programs as user mktex
• public — for all users run specific TeX programs as group mktex

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

public -> [texhash|mktexlsr|mktexmf|mktexpk|mktextfm]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

public drops its privileges if it’s called by the user root — it switches over to the user nobdy in a clean environment. For all users, the group mktex is used. Currently the following programs are supported:

• texhash — create ls-R databases
• mktexlsr — create ls-R databases
• mktexmf — create a Metafont source file
• mktexpk — create a PK file for a font
• mktextfm — create a TFM file for a font

🎀 NOTES 🎀

The umask changed so that members of the group mktex can read and write files. iykyk 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

2012 Werner Fink — iconic, thank you for your service 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

texhash(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1), mktextfm(1), sudo(8).

🫶 that’s the whole page, bestie: NOBODY(8) from the Linux System Administrator's Manual, dated Apr 27, 2012. Bye 💖