Need informationon nobody user capabilities

Hi all,

The OS I am using is Solaris 9 on a Sun-Fire-V890 machine.
I have a shell script that runs through Control-M schedular. When it
runs, it is assigned user = nobody and group = nobody.

I have a directory "webdir" and a subdirectory of webdir "model" with
following permissions:

drwxrwxrwx 3 amit dba 512 May 5 06:02 webdir

drwxr--r-- 2 amit dba 512 May 5 06:02 model

Now, the shell script is written to delete old files from "webdir/
model" dir and create new files. Can the script run as nobody user and
create / delete files from "webdir/model" directory with current
permissions on "model" directory in place or I must give write
permissions to "other" o+w on model diredctory?

I can't test it on my end because I do not have rights to schedule a
job in Comtrol-M :(

I also need to know the capabilities of "nobody" user account, as how
it is different from normal unix user accounts, what it can do and
what It can't do.
I tried google, but information I got was not very clear.

Please help me out.

Thanks & Regards,
Amit
.

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