Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:32:31 +0100 From: Kristian Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Users and groups properly organized? Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060303152354.022c0d48@broadpark.no>
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Hello. Have you all ever had a look at your /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group? Stupid question. But notice the user and group identifications being thrown about as if they didn't matter. To me they do, and I would like some order in my system. Starting with my user and group identifications. Can I do something like this? find -s . -uid foo | xargs chown bar find -s . -gid foo | xargs chgrp bar To be able to arrange master.passwd like this, where UIDs and GIDs go by a chronological order? nobody:*:55555:55555::0:0:Unprivileged:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin root:$1$xsL49xbt$of5hvUCiVT/b/D3B70bZv1:0:0::0:0:Core:/root:/usr/local/bin/zsh daemon:*:1:1::0:0:System Processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin operator:*:2:2::0:0:Operator:/:/usr/sbin/nologin kmem:*:3:65533::0:0:KMem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin bin:*:4:4::0:0:Binaries:/:/usr/sbin/nologin tty:*:5:65533::0:0:Titty:/:/usr/sbin/nologin news:*:6:6::0:0:News:/:/usr/sbin/nologin man:*:7:7::0:0:Manuals:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin sshd:*:101:101::0:0:Secure Shell:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin www:*:102:102::0:0:World Wide Web:/usr/local/www:/usr/sbin/nologin ftp:*:103:103::0:0:File Transfer Protocol:/home/websites:/usr/sbin/nologin mysql:*:104:104::0:0:MySQL:/var/db/mysql:/sbin/nologin proxy:*:105:105::0:0:Packet Filter:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin smmsp:*:106:106::0:0:Sendmail Submission:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin mailnull:*:107:107::0:0:Sendmail Default:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin postfix:*:108:108::0:0:Postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/usr/sbin/nologin cyrus:*:109:109::1111874400:0:Cyrus:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin spamd:*:110:110::0:0:SpamAssassin:/var/spool/spamd:/sbin/nologin vscan:*:111:111::0:0:Scanner:/var/amavis:/bin/sh clamav:*:112:112::0:0:ClamAV:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin tinydns:*:113:113::0:0:TinyDNS:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin axfrdns:*:114:114::0:0:Transfers:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin dnscache:*:115:115::0:0:Cache:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin dnslog:*:116:116::0:0:Logging:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin vaaf:*:1001:0::0:0:Kristian:/home/vaaf:/usr/local/bin/zsh nomad:*:1002:1002::0:0:Hednod:/home/nomad:/usr/local/bin/zsh polvott:*:1003:1003::0:0:Thomas:/home/polvott:/usr/local/bin/zsh speak:*:1004:1004::0:0:Poetry:/home/speak:/usr/local/bin/zsh And groups equally: nobody:*:55555: wheel:*:0:root daemon:*:1: operator:*:2:root kmem:*:3: bin:*:4: tty:*:5: news:*:6: man:*:7: sshd:*:101: www:*:102: ftp:*:103: mysql:*:104: proxy:*:105: smmsp:*:106: mailnull:*:107: postfix:*:108: cyrus:*:119: spamd:*:110: vscan:*:111: clamav:*:112: tinydns:*:113: axfrdns:*:114: dnscache:*:115: dnslog:*:116: nomad:*:1002: polvott:*:1003: speak:*:1004: And so on ... Maybe such order, harmony or balance or whatever will help boost system performance? Just a superstitious thought. Cheers! :) All the best, Vaaf
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