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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!usenet From: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Help with description of UID/GID setup, please. Date: 15 Apr 1993 10:57:38 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1qjf32$h7i@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu Could someone please describe what all the UID/GID's in the dist setup are for? I mean, I know what the basic Unix ones are: (root,daemon,bin,uucp(kinda),news(kinda)) (wheel,bin) But what use does "nobody", for example, serve? And why are some of the startup groups for certain GID's nonintuitive? Ex: root's startup GID is whoever, not wheel. I'm sure there are very good reasons, which might become evident if I studied each subsystem in question, but I'm lazy. Also: for added security, you can put **NO_LOGIN** as a pw field; is it ok to put /dev/null as the shell? What about for cron, will it handle things properly? What about other scripts which run as that user? -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - finger for more info if you even care.