2135 – Might want to delete user `www' from /etc/passwd

Bug 2135 - Might want to delete user `www' from /etc/passwd

Summary: Might want to delete user `www' from /etc/passwd

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-04-26 14:56 UTC by Arcady Genkin (RETIRED)
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-26 14:56:34 UTC

Gentoo's stock /etc/passwd has user 'www' with UID 30.  Lately a user 'apache'
has been added with UID 81.  My feeling is that we might either want to combine
those two accounts into one, or get rid of one of them.

Also see the last three comments to bug 2068 for more discussion.

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-07 15:22:19 UTC

Done on CVS.