Bug 56130

Summary:	Unused accounts in /etc/passwd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Davies <mark>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark Davies 2004-07-05 06:54:27 UTC

The baselayout package creats a /etc/passwd with lots of accounts I will never use. Is there any justified reason for user ids squid, gdm, xfs, named, mysql, postgres, apache, nut, cyrus, vpopmail, qmaild, qmaill, qmailp, qmailq, qmailr, qmails, postfix, smmsp and guest to be on my system if the corresponding packages have not been installed? Note a lot of these users donot have entries in /etc/shadow for some reason. /etc/group is also cluttered up with unused groups corresponding to the above user ids.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-07-05 08:03:06 UTC

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8634 ***