On 20 June 2010 02:58, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Once upon a time, [email protected] <[email protected]> said: > > No reason to migrate those accounts over from Tru64, just use the > > default Linux accounts. > > I think you misunderstood; on my Tru64 system, "sync" and "gopher" are > regular user accounts (belonging to a couple of paying customers). I > need to delete the Linux default system accounts so I can create regular > user accounts (different groups, much higher UIDs, etc.). >
I can't see any reason why you shouldn't reuse those accounts either. > > I find it odd that there are still legacy-named accounts, especially > those that AFAIK aren't actually usable. For example, there's a > "shutdown" user; even if you give that user a password, I don't think it > actually will shut the system down (it is a non-root account, and it > just calls "shutdown" with no arguments, which IIRC doesn't work). > Apart from sync, shutdown, halt and gopher there's lp whose home directory is /var/spool/lpd -- a directory owned by root (here), games (surely long past its sell-by date), mail, operator, ... Are some of these mandated by the LSB or Posix, or just being kept around for their antique value? jch
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