From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 31 13:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6597737B420 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B08BBD09; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24755; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:19:28 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBVLKnu33445; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I rename root? References: <20011229154552.B855@localhost> <20011230103317.A474@localhost> <20011230232850.GA5802@raggedclown.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 31 Dec 2001 13:20:49 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011230232850.GA5802@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <9rsn9raxxq.n9r@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Cliff Sarginson writes: > It mean un-needed user accounts, for people who have left etc. > Not system accounts (which don't have login shells anyway). Of course I considered that that might be what he meant, but I don't read minds, and I try to draw inferences from what I read, to draw out concepts rather than following steps blindly. And I think it makes sense to remove all unneeded accounts. I was just optimistic enough to hope that the system build scripts wouldn't need a UUCP account and didn't see the requirement documented. Same for the "xten" account. I was happy to find that "adduser" works for non-user accounts too. ;-) > The name may be a system account, which is not a login account. The term "system account" seems too nebulous to be useful without nearby qualification. I've considered "root" and "toor" to be system accounts even though they are login accounts. And I've considered "xten", "pop", "bind", and "uucp" to not be system accounts, but as "application accounts", because they are not (AFAIK) related to required system software, but to applications. I suppose some people think "distributed" instead of "required" or consider "xten", "pop", etc. as part of the system rather than applications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message