On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Sandow, Malte wrote:
Why this effort? It is no security risk to have these users because as stated above, they can not log in. If anything is done by these users someone (root) has to su to one of them.
Hi all, Let me share an anticdote, <lol>. I happened to get root access to a friends computer and noticed that he had a lot of users in his passwd file. So I added a user with a weird name that looked like a legitimate process and gave it a UID of 0. Anyway, with all those users in the passwd file, a user that does not know what they are looking for, will not catch something like what I had done, until it was too late. We could if this to death, but I personally prefer a small /etc/passwd. tflat -- _________________________________________________________ James F. Wilkus http://www.xnot.com/editek Licq 10933411 geek by nature, linux by choice