On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi
>
> As I said, I upgraded the setup package. Having a look at the /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files, I wonder about why there are some users/groups in there.
>
> In /etc/group, what do I need the groups qmail and djbdns for? I don't plan
> on using djbdns and qmail. Further, why is there no group floppy anymore?
> Currently my /dev/fd0* are group owned by floppy - what group should own
> these files?
>
> In /etc/passwd, what do I need the users alias, qmail{d,l,p,q,r,s}, dnscache,
> dnslog, tinydns and axfrdns for? I assume that these are also qmail and
> djbdns related users. Why? Also there are the users postgres, dhcpd,
> named, nscd, apache, rpcuser, rpc and sympa - if I don't use any of these
> servers, what good are these users?
>
And all these users appear in kdm login user selection window because it
does not know anything abut them :-(
-andrej
