Purpose of bin account and group etc ...

From: Mike Hudson <mjhudson_at_uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:40:30 -0400

Hello managers

Can anyone point me to online documentation describing the default
accounts found in /etc/passwd and their purpose?

For example, there is a user called bin. All programs in /usr/bin have
user=bin and group=bin ... does it matter whether they are owned by bin
or have user=root and group=system like everything else ...?

I couldn't find a description of these accounts in the Digital System
Administration book ...

Thanks
Mike
Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 14:42:52 NZST