I am migrating a system to RHEL 5 from Tru64 Unix.  I noticed that there
are a couple of users that are in the default /etc/passwd that match
existing usernames; "gopher" and "sync".  Is there any reason NOT to
just delete the system accounts by those names and let the existing
users have them?

The accounts are not actually active in RHEL as far as I can see, they
are just pre-listed in /etc/passwd.  I'm certainly not running a gopher
server, so I can't imaging that one would be a problem.  Is there really
any reason to have a system user named "sync" (or is there anything that
is going to treat that username as "special" if I let a regular user
have it)?

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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