Re: Solaris 10 necessary file question

Stephen Hauskins <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Nov 2006 07:46:06 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <[email protected]>

If you are running sendmail I would be careful about doing
away with smmsp.  The others are not necessary but really
don't represent much in the way of diskspace usage or system
resources.


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, [email protected] wrote:

> We removed the following default accounts in Solaris 10: lp, smmsp, www, uucp, nuccp, however the files owned by these accounts still exist.  I would like to delete these files, but the administrator is not very familiar with Solaris and doesn't know if the O/S needs the associated files or not. Does anyone know if those files are still in use even though the file's owner accounts have been deleted?
>
> Thank You in Advance,
> Jeff
>