"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
Jon Pennington wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Sam Carleton wrote:
When I look at the /etc/passwd file there are a lot of users such as irc, named, fnet, etc... Are they security holes? If they are, which ones can I remove?
Those users are for use by daemons of the same name, so as to *not* create security holes by running the services as `root'. A stroke of genius on the developers' respective parts :). Those users have no login privilages, and are only allowed to run the services that they own, not even simple tools like `ls'.
Alas, I deleted most of them. Is there a way to restore them that you know of, given that I don't even know what needs to be restored or what attributes those users should have?
I think they are created by installing the assosiated software package. If not, they must be installed all together with some other package, assumingly with the base series. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/