From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 15:28:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388F737B405 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:28:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16KpNr-000MYv-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:28:51 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 4BEC110A1; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:28:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:28:50 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I rename root? Message-ID: <20011230232850.GA5802@raggedclown.net> References: <20011229154552.B855@localhost> <20011230103317.A474@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:37:03PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Rogier Steehouder writes: > > > I only got the advise: Don't. iThanks for the advise, but since noone > > knew any programs explicitly, I did it anyway. > > I did something along these lines which I thought was about zero risk: I > removed my "uucp" user. Who needs UUCP? And some security article said > to get rid of unneeded accounts. It did fine until I tried updating from > 4.4-R to 4.5-Pre and discovered that the make files assume the existence It mean un-needed user accounts, for people who have left etc. Not system accounts (which don't have login shells anyway). The password file maps names to numeric user ids. The name may be a system account, which is not a login account. Then there was the guy who didn't like all the files beginning with a "." in his home directory, since he didn't know what they were he thought he would just get rid of them... *sigh*... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message