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FreeBSD & DCO: refuse to run with `user nobody`

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Since May 23, 2026.

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Description

Disable DCO if user non-root is requested, because it can not work (I think we have something like that for linux capabilities?).

See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295426 for logs

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