On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, [UTF-8] Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
L. V. Lammert escribió:
Wow - thanks for pointing that out! Seems like somebody slipped up ROYALLY on this one - it was login enabled yet!
No.
Perhaps not functionally, but there **IS** a valid shell in passwd - that makes a login possible. IMHO, best security practices dictate that accounts without login capability should have nologin as a shell.
OTOH, could it be for remote support?
No, it is a system user so the application can "drop privileges" to access the internet, you dont want to browse as root do you ?
Makes sense, but doesn't belong in and OS application; it's trivial to delete, however. Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org