Subject: Re: dumb question: necessary uid's
To: Brian Andresen <btandresen@ucdavis.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/02/1997 10:32:43
> 
> 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
> uucp
> ingres
> falken
> 
> 
> 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.

I think they are all there because some file ends up getting owned by
each of them. So I'd say let them stay. They aren't really bothering
anything, are they?

Take care,

Bill