PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
how about imparting some of that vast
knowledge you seem to be harboring in that horse of yours?
I already gave her the best technical advice she's gotten yet.
I said, "Don't do that , it doesn't add to your system security and it's
dangerous."
Why does the user "games" have to exist on a linux system?
It owns some files. It can't login, that is why something like
/sbin/nologin (from memory) is its shell.
The more kozmik issue is that all sorts of utilities and regimens think
that certain well-known system accounts do exist. Due to
the open source context, it thus becomes a Halting Problem to determine
whether you're going to get surprises if you delete these
accounts.
--
Jack J. Woehr # «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find
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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