From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 1 18:09:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25151 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rabu.garage.co.jp (rabu.garage.co.jp [199.100.7.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25144 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@garage.co.jp) Received: from grape.garage.co.jp (nurikabe.garage.co.jp [206.3.9.162]) by rabu.garage.co.jp (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA03059 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:09:46 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:09:46 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199804020209.LAA03059@rabu.garage.co.jp> From: Brian Takashi Hooper To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: what are all the different users for? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.23 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ! I was wondering what the function/intended function is of each of these default users: toor -- I can see this is a different version of root, except with a bourne-shell login; but can I get rid of it if I do not use it? Is it needed for anything? operator -- what does this run? what is it intended for? games -- what is this for? if I don't have any games on my system, do I need this user? news, uucp -- as with 'games' above for these... xten -- what is X-10? I don't think I'm running this...? As a related question, can anyone tell me for sure if it's ok to change the login shell for root? I am used to using bash, so I'd like to use that; however, is there anything that depends on root being /bin/csh? Thanks! Brian Hooper To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message