Re: Solaris 10 necessary file question

In message <20061102174655.12262.qmail@securityfocus.com>, 
jeffnjillian@gmail.c
om writes:
> 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 Solar
> is 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 h
> ave been deleted?

You're better off removing the packages. By just removing the accounts and 
files, the next time you apply a patch that touches those packages, the files 
will be recreated -- and you won't even know about it. Or you can remove the 
files every time you apply patches. If you have a lot of hosts (my team manages 
about 250 Sun boxes), you want to keep the amount of repetitive work to a 
minimum, just remove the packages, better yet set up your jumpstart scripts to 
not install them in the first place.



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