Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Paolo Consiglio um 13:16: > Hi everybody, > I was looking into Fedora and I see a lot of user-id defined into > /etc/passwd file, > such as ftp, usr, and so on. It's seems to me they don't have access to > shell, > but I wonder if that could be a problem for internet security... > Maybe can I delete them and leave only root and the standard users > without having any kind of problem? > > thanks for answering, bye! P. > Do not delete any of them! They are for security reasons. Example: The ftp daemon is running as user ftp, file access for this user is limited. If you were to delete ftp and choose root to run ftpd THIS would be a massive security whole, for root has "access to all areas" ;-) Christoph
