Safe to disable unused accounts?

From: Jonathan Williams <jonathw_at_shubertorg.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:00:40 -0400

Hi. I'm running Tru64 5.1b, pk 3 on a variety of ES machines.

I was just wondering if it is OK to disable (ie lock) some of the system default
acounts. The accounts in question are:

auth
bin
cron
daemon
lp
tcb
uucp
uucpa

Apparently these accounts have never ever been accessed, so I would assume it's
safe to lock them (maybe even remove then entirely), but just wanted to be sure.
TIA

Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 18:09:01 NZST

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