On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:06 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> > Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC):
> >
>
>
> I think users and their passwords are the least of the problem.
> A fresh install of jessie sets up about 30 system users before
> the admin ($UID=1000) gets a look-in. So you can end up with your
> email system being owned by statd.messagebus instead of
> Debian-exim.Debian-exim for example.
>
> You can diagnose the extent of the problem with a command like:
>
> # find / -mount -not -group 0 -exec ls -ld {} \; -o -not -user 0 -exec ls
> -ld {} \; | less
>
> but fixing it is probably a matter of for ... chown ...
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking, since all those system users are,
in the end, users. It was those I had in mind. This computer only happens
to have one human user, me. I am, indeed, the least of my worries :-)
Mark
