As others said: remove packages not users! You might get more insecure
if you remove users that are used for priviliege separation. If there is
no smmsp user, will sendmail then run as root? Same for apache if there
is no www user?
jeffnjillian (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
> We removed the following default accounts in Solaris 10: lp, smmsp, www, uucp, nuccp, however the files owned by these accounts still exist. I would like to delete these files, but the administrator is not very familiar with Solaris and doesn't know if the O/S needs the associated files or not. Does anyone know if those files are still in use even though the file's owner accounts have been deleted?
>
> Thank You in Advance,
> Jeff
>
As others said: remove packages not users! You might get more insecure
if you remove users that are used for priviliege separation. If there is
no smmsp user, will sendmail then run as root? Same for apache if there
is no www user?
jeffnjillian (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
> We removed the following default accounts in Solaris 10: lp, smmsp, www, uucp, nuccp, however the files owned by these accounts still exist. I would like to delete these files, but the administrator is not very familiar with Solaris and doesn't know if the O/S needs the associated files or not. Does anyone know if those files are still in use even though the file's owner accounts have been deleted?
>
> Thank You in Advance,
> Jeff
>
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