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Re: debian system users delete or change access
From: Alexander Klimov <alserkli () inbox ru>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:47:40 +0300 (IDT)
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Brent Clark wrote:
I have the following in my /etc/passwd file. daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh [...] Ive always wondered, can I delete these users / groups, or maybe change the shell access to /bin/false instead.
It would be a bad idea to delete users, since when you will not be able to run services which use them (some startup script which do, e.g., `su lp ...' will fail), or you will have numbers instead of names in your `ls' output. AFAIK changing shell would be pointless: locked users can not log in (not even thru ssh) so their shells are never used anyway. -- Regards, ASK
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