Disable and delete "ids" user

[Fernando Boza]

Is posible disable and them delete the user "ids"?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Yes. See the manpages for 'userdel' and its options.

When you delete an account you may want to find any files owned by the account and transfer their ownership to another user. This can be done before or after the account has been deleted. For example, you might do:

# find / -user boza -exec ls -ld {} +

...or if user "boza" has already been deleted:

# find / -nouser -exec ls -ld {} +

See tha 'find' and the 'userdel' manpages for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Fernando Boza]

This user is for application HIDS.
I get any problem when disable it?

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Starting HP-UX HIDS
Log in to each agent host as root and start the idsagent program as the ids user. For more information, see â Starting HP-UX HIDS Agentsâ .

http://docs.hp.com/en/5900-0439/ch03s04.html

You will need to have this user enabled.

[Fernando Boza]

Is possible change the password?

[Fernando Boza]

for security, I need to change the password of the user ids, is this possible without causing inconvenience to HIDS? which is the default password of the user ids?
I can change the name of the user ids?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Fernando,

Does the ids user have a password, or is it a locked user?

# grep ids /etc/passwd

Robert-Jan

[rariasn]

Hi Fernando,

No problem for change ids password.


My "ids" user:

System wide password aging is enabled.


User ids has 64 days left until password expires
User ids last changed the password on: Mon Nov 9 08:26:33 2009.
User ids - password will expire on: 2010 Feb 7.

Regards,

[Fernando Boza]

ids:x:115:106:HP-UX Host IDS Administrator:/opt/ids/home:/sbin/sh