(oh no, a crosspost) On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:35:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The man program (sometimes) runs as user man, so it can write cat > pages to /var/cache/man > > HELP: My system has no files owned by user man, and I don't see > the point of the user, aside from symmetry.
The man program (sometimes) runs as user man, so it can write cat pages to /var/cache/man. > uucp: > > HELP: Presumably used for UUCP, which I know nothing of. > > HELP: Why is minicom owned by group uucp? Is this a bug? Probably as a convenient but ugly way to get access to the serial port, or something. > proxy: > > Like daemon, this user and group is used by some daemons > (specifically, proxy daemons) that don't have dedicated user id's > and that need to own files. For example, group proxy is used by > pdnsd. > > HELP: What uses user proxy? squid, at least. > majordom: > > Majordomo has a statically allocated uid on Debian systems for > historical reasons. > > HELP: Do we still even ship that buggy old POS? Not if apt-cache is behaving itself today. > postgres: > > HELP: Presumably used by the postgresql database? > > www-data: > > HELP: Er, I should know this, but this box doesn't run apache and > I'm offline. Used by apache as the user/group, typically is the user/group that owns web content.
