Removing system user

2004-02-20 Thread meimi
Hello all, I have read some document about server hardening. It suggests me removing the following users: operator, games, news, uucp and following groups: operator, staff I can guess that games is used for playing and news is used for reading news in news group. How about the other? Their

Re: Removing system user

2004-02-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:51:03PM +0800, meimi wrote: I have read some document about server hardening. It suggests me removing the following users: operator, games, news, uucp and following groups: operator, staff I can guess that games is used for playing and news is used for reading

Re: Removing system user

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas Beer
I would not delete them. A normal user, e.g., has to be member of the group staff to su to root, etc. Cheers Tom On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:51:03PM +0800, meimi wrote: I have read some document about server hardening. It suggests me removing the following users: operator, games, news,

Re: Removing system user

2004-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
I would not delete them. A normal user, e.g., has to be member of the group staff to su to root, etc. It is group wheel they need to be in. I suppose someone might have made staff work too, but wheel is the biggie. jerry Cheers Tom On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:51:03PM +0800,