From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 10 08:19:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA25227 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA25205 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:19:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26618 invoked by uid 4028); 10 Aug 1997 15:19:38 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:13:18 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: Chad William Monteith Subject: RE: Weird default users Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chad, Don't worry about anyone logging into an account with a '*' as the password. If toor (root backwards) and xten cause you anxiety, delete them. Be careful about deleting the 'games' user, however. You may find that your computer will boot-up playing xdoom... then, however, you may not. Ron On 10-Aug-97 Chad William Monteith wrote: >>Greetings, > in using vipw, I found some weird default users names that I >didnot know where supposed to be ther, and would like to know what they >are for. > I found out about this one with my daily report which sent a list >of users with ID#0(Root access). The first was toor, said something about >a bourne shell login. Next (didnt have a ID#0) was xten. What are these >used for? I know the uses of ones like daemon, UUCP, etc. But those >confused me, and I dont like having anybody with root access except for >root. > I also do not want a 'games' user, will the system do anything >weird if I delete that default user? >Thanks again. > > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 08/10/97 Time: 08:13:18 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------