/etc/passwd.....

[moon]

Hi all,

I’ve tried to figure out what is the use of program accounts
found in the /etc/passwd file such as lp, uucp,…. Moreover, they
are set to “No Password – setuid only”, so what is
the benefit of doing that. Another question is when to add some
program accounts to this file, and how dose the system use and
interact with this file?

Thank you for your help and I hope to hear from you as soon as
possible,

Yours,
Brgds,

[Dave Uhring]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 08:44:16 -0700, moon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’ve tried to figure out what is the use of program accounts
> found in the /etc/passwd file such as lp, uucp,…. Moreover, they
> are set to “No Password – setuid only”, so what is
> the benefit of doing that. Another question is when to add some
> program accounts to this file, and how dose the system use and
> interact with this file?

Some of those "users" own their processes.

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000
[/]# ps -ef | grep lp
lp 204 1 0 Jul 17 ? 0:00 /opt/sfw/sbin/lpd

> Thank you for your help and I hope to hear from you as soon as
> possible,

Just log into your NNTP server and read the news.

[Cypherpunk@nyc.rr.com]

moon <only_forme4@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,

Hi! Excitement!

> I& #8217;ve

You've been infected by a virus? ;-)

[Dave Uhring]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 19:32:58 +0000, Cypherpun wrote:

> moon <only_forme4@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Hi all,

>
> Hi! Excitement!
>

>> I& #8217;ve

>
> You've been infected by a virus? ;-)

The worst, MSIE.

[Anthony Mandic]

Dave Uhring wrote:

>
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 19:32:58 +0000, Cypherpun wrote:

"Cypherpun"? You've just give me a whole new line of puns
on Guy's handle.

-am © 2003

[moon]

I was able to figure out the meaning of the system account. I am not
sure, but I think that they are used to add restriction to some files
and folders used by such accounts, Simply! You know some texts can
easily confuse you!

This message is sent by MSIE : )

[Dave Uhring]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:20:11 -0700, moon wrote:

> This message is sent by MSIE : )

Microsoft is too stupid to transmit the correct ASCII code for the
apostrophe.