Marcy Cortes wrote:
I keep getting rid of this userid /etc/passwd, and something puts it back.
SLES 10.
How do I make it stop doing that?
Also uucp and ftp.
Bad bad bad.
Linux is the Windows of the Unix world. It's user friendly. That's why I
use OpenBSD :)
Not bad bad bad. Linux is trying to save you from hosing your
installation, probably. I shouldn't
tell you this and empower you to go break things, but I'll bet one of
the daily scripts or
one of the startup scripts puts these uids back if you mistakenly delete
them.
Leave them there. They're part of the system design. You CAN get rid of
them and keep
the system running but there's no sane reason to. Why ever would you
want to expend
work to do something you shouldn't do and have no reason to do?
Delete the contents of /usr/games if you want, but don't delete the user
id. And leave
uucp and ftp userids alone on pain of You'll Be Sorry Someday And Not
Know Why.
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http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or
http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
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