HPE Community
Operating System - HP-UX
1771005 Members
2541 Online
109003 Solutions
New Discussion юеВ

Re: password file entries

 
Phillip Sprague
New Member

тАО04-03-2000 02:34 AM

тАО04-03-2000 02:34 AM

password file entries

Which passwords are system required & should not or cannot be removed from the
etc/passwd file in a HPUX v10r2 system?
0 Kudos
Reply
2 REPLIES 2
Frank Broeer
Frequent Advisor

тАО04-03-2000 02:00 PM

тАО04-03-2000 02:00 PM

Re: password file entries

These are the necessary ones

root
daemon
bin
sys
adm
uucp
lp
nuucp
hpdb
nobody

cheers

Frank
0 Kudos
Reply
Evan Day_1
Frequent Advisor

тАО04-04-2000 01:39 AM

тАО04-04-2000 01:39 AM

Re: password file entries

I believe that all passwd entries with a UID below 100 are reserved for the
system and shouldn't be deleted if they are present.

It's not a good idea to delete entries from the /etc/passwd file directly - any
files owned by the user deleted will still be on the system owned by the old
UID. If a new user is added with that UID, the old files will suddenly be
owned by the new user.
0 Kudos
Reply
The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. By using this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Rules of Participation.