Subject: Re: dumb question: necessary uid's
To: Brian Andresen <btandresen@ucdavis.edu>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/01/1997 17:46:45
> Since I first installed NetBSD, I've had a number of entries in
> master.passwd, and I'm not sure which ones need to stay and which don't: 
> 
> toor
> daemon
> operator
> bin
> games - do you have the games installed?
> uucp - probably need this one
> ingres - probably don't need this one
> falken - probably don't need this one
> 
> 
> I can see that the daemon and uucp entries need to stay, but what about
> the others?  I guess I'm not sure what sort of processes use them or
> require their existence.

For the most part, there are several things in the standard distribution 
owned by these psuedo users (except I think, falken and ingres).

> If this isn't appropriate material for the list, please follow up
> privately.  Sorry for the newbie-esque question.

Mailing netbsd-help or netbsd-users might be more appropriate, as this 
issue definitely isn't mac68k-specific.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
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