Subject: Re: Unnecessary standard accounts (Was: Root, toor accounts.)
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Marc Baudoin <babafou@babafou.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/15/1999 22:15:10
David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> écrit :
>
> As an added bonus the operator user is not in the operator group,
> so cannot run shutdown even if you give it a valid password.
> Aaaaah...
>
> My inclination wold be to:
> a) Put operator in the operator group. This at least opens the
> possibility of it being useful as an operator.
> b) Switch its default shell to /sbin/nologin to quiet security.
Whereas the operator group is extremely useful, I still don't
think the operator user is. But your proposal is OK if you want
to keep the operator user.
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Marc Baudoin -=- <babafou@babafou.eu.org>