My standard MDK 7.2 install created the following users in /etc/passwd (excluding user accounts that I have created): root bin daemon adm lp sync shutdown halt mail news uucp operator games named sympa gopher ftp nobody xfs htdig gdm mysql However, I see that I am actually running processes owned by only the following users (generated via "ps aux | uniq -w 10 | sort": (again excluding processes by users): bin (running portmap) daemon (running /usr/sbin/atd) mysql (running several instances of mysqld) nobody (running identd) root (running init, automount, crond) xfs (running xfs) So, which of these users (many of which are obviously not being used for active system functions) do I actually need to have? In the interest of security, I would muchly like to eliminate any accounts that aren't really necessary). Neal
