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Originally Posted by Corona688
It's difficult to lump those all together since that includes a guest account and, unless I'm mistaken, an admin account. Talk about polar extremes.
But system accounts like dhcp and oracle are generally configured as non-login accounts: no password, no home, not even a shell. Programs using this uid switched to it with a privileged
setuid() call rather than any sort of login process.
I just used an oracle account to login into a solaris system with a password yesterday however.