'Twas brillig, and [email protected] at 16/09/12 17:13 did gyre and gimble: > - 1 > Removing them is a really bad idea. It violates fundamental security > principles. > There is a reason processes are run with their user permissions.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Unless a sysadmin manually sets a password for these users, then they are not used. Just to reiterate these users shells are configured as the corresponding commands. The users themselves serve only one purpose and that is to shutdown the machine. As stated previously, there are different ways to do that these days, and I'm not sure anyone has used these user accounts for the state purpose for the last decade at least. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
