On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:21:37 +1300 Rodger Donaldson <rod...@diaspora.gen.nz> wrote:
> Marcy Cortes wrote: > > Thanks Scott. I started to answer that question earlier but apparently > > didn't hit send. > > > > Userdel is what I used to remove them from the golden image. > > > > I suspect is was maintenance. Recently SP3 went on a bunch of servers. > > rpm -qf /etc/passwd will tell you who owns /etc/passwd, which would be > the obvious patch-related culprit (for certain odd values of 'culprit'). One most distributions the password entries are updated by various rpm scripts and tools. The rpm packaging system also uses owner names not fixed id numbers when installing so removing entries will leave you with potentially bogus/invalid ownerships and/or reuse of stuff that should be separated by the same id. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
