From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 9 17:28:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA23980 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23975 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA07133; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:28:43 GMT Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: The Sparc of Life cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, The Sparc of Life wrote: > hey, I have a question for you guys....if I delete the pseudo acounts > that are listed in the master passwd file like toor, games, uucp, etc. > will anything horrible happen?? Do they run certain processes?? You can trash toor and games without a thought. User uucp owns the Call out ports but if you never dial out that isn't a problem. news, man and xten look like you could dump them with no problems. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82