On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:55, Eric Robinson wrote: > I'm sure this question has been asked and answered before, but I'd sure > appreciate some input on it. > > Why does Red Hat create all these "standard" users like adm, > operator, gopher, sync, uucp, and so on? Can I safely delete these users as > I am being told to do in some Linux security HOWTOs? How can I tell whether > my system needs some of these users? >
Actually if you delete these user many services will run as root (which is bad security wise), or not run at all. The correct thing to do is uninstall the services themselves. What howto are you looking at? PS- I'd advise something like bastille if you are serious about security. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bastille-linux/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
