On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:19:10AM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote:
Hello!
I am working on a machine and I did a minimal, bare-bones install (i.e. I selected the 'Minimum' profile, and then started paring from there. About the only thing I _added_ was harden_suse. I was somewhat disconcerted to find that there was still entries in the passwd file for just about every system daemon/ program that's feasible under SuSE, which is quite a few. Granted, these accounts are all deactivated, I presume, if the associated programs are not installed. Is there a 'good' way to purge these from the files, other than using yast or an editor? In the past I think I've had problems where I removed all the accounts I didn't think I used, and when I later installed software that should have had an account entry for the daemon or something, it didn't do it on it's own, and I had a lot of heartburn trying to figure it all out.
You have answered your own questions. Leave them there, for goodness sake what harm are they doing ? They are not taking up space ! Why do people mess so and make things awkward for themselves later. *sigh*
Anyone else have experience w/ this?
Also, as far as making it so new user directories aren't filled w/ stuff that I don't need, just edit the /etc/skel/ directory, correct?
More to the point add/modify things you need. What is it you want to get rid of ?
Thanks,
Monte