From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 24 18:46:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D96837B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0P2n8045625; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:49:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:48:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Matt Chew Spence Cc: Lawrence Sica , Guillermo Leandro , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default users and the passwords Message-ID: <20010124184807.H45221@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <3A6E7F77.6DFC4A3E@interactivate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3VRmKSg17yJg2MZg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@nren.nasa.gov on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3VRmKSg17yJg2MZg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Matt Chew Spence wrote: >=20 > Another question in a similar vein: >=20 > Which, if any (besides root and nobody, which are a given), of these > default accounts are critical to the basic functionality of the box? Is > there a list somewhere where I can match these phantom/daemon users to > their functionality/dependencies? I'd just as soon blow away things I'll > never use, (uucp, xten, etc), but I am loathe to do so without a better > understanding of the ramifications thereof.... I believe all of them. Just leave them be, they don't consume any resources except for the abstract numerical resource of one UID number. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --3VRmKSg17yJg2MZg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6b5PnWry0BWjoQKURAjGVAKDKQHUqVb2TaqngssDpUvXcf5z0MQCgutkp ba6lUhItxUXqPEScEgyVUmI= =Ec/K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3VRmKSg17yJg2MZg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message