Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:11:46 +0400 From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> To: <cyu0635@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remove users in the passwd file Message-ID: <011901c156eb$bf429680$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> References: <3BCCE169.99DBCD3B@home.com>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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