" but the administrator is not very familiar with Solaris and doesn't"
Bad feeling #1 :) Unix, unlike windows, will let you delete anything you want and not warn or stop you. (try a rm -r * from / as user root :) ) It will then crash without a care. The point, if you do not really know the OS, then do not try to manually delete things. Delete the package. Unix will even be nice enough to tell you if anything else depends on that package. Lp is for the printing package/system. Are you sure you will never need printing services? Are you just wanting a more secure box? The two easy solutions: 1) Lock the account. 2) If you do not want to lock the account then change the shell to point to /dev/null. You can change the sendmail user to be anything. (in the sendmail.cf, user to run as setting) Just remove the package if you do not want it. Again, if your running an up-to-date sendmail, you can secure it. It makes life very each to get alerts/logs from the host to your email account. (unless you like connecting to the box all the time to check logs) you also may need to check all of your config files. Some may want to send an email to root if there is a problem/trap. " Does anyone know if those files are still in use even though the file's owner accounts have been deleted?" Bad feeling #2 :) That sounds like a very beginner type of question. In Unix, if you delete the user or group, the file owner or group will change to the number of the uid or group that the account was. Ie: user - joeshmo uid 2000. If you delete joeshmo then all files that he owned will now show 2000 as the owner. Why is this bad - 1) If you create a new user sometime later and give them the same uid, then they own that file. (Which you may or may not want) 2) It becomes harder to search for the file(s) as you need to search by number and not a name. 3) depending on the rights, you may think the file is gone, when it is still there. 4) It is sloppy admin'ing. Auditors will have a field day with it. You really should learn the OS first, before you delete/remove things that your not sure of. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Hauskins Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Solaris 10 necessary file question If you are running sendmail I would be careful about doing away with smmsp. The others are not necessary but really don't represent much in the way of diskspace usage or system resources. On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We removed the following default accounts in Solaris 10: lp, smmsp, www, uucp, nuccp, however the files owned by these accounts still exist. I would like to delete these files, but the administrator is not very familiar with Solaris and doesn't know if the O/S needs the associated files or not. Does anyone know if those files are still in use even though the file's owner accounts have been deleted? > > Thank You in Advance, > Jeff > ----------------------------------------- This e-mail message is private and may contain confidential or privileged information.
