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Subject: Re: remove users in the passwd file
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:11:46 +0400
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <cyu0635@home.com>
Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:42 AM
Subject: remove users in the passwd file


> I am wandering wether I can remove the following users in the passwd
> file
> 
> lp
> sync
> shutdown
> news
> games
> gother
> xfs
> operator
> 
> Is there any harmful in the system?
> 
> Many thanks for your help

Why do you want to do this? These are pseudo users and some files
in your system have owner shutdown, games, etc. Don't forget that
some commands, "ls -l" for example, reads /etc/passwd file and
outputs appropriate user name for UID. Also
"/etc/periodic/weekly/340.noid"  script will tell you about non existent
users.


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