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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Two news user accounts in RHEL! Post 302644075 by parth_buch on Monday 21st of May 2012 09:21:51 AM
Old 05-21-2012
Two news user accounts in RHEL!

I have a server Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4) on which I have two news accounts!!
Code:
news:x:9:13:news:/etc/news:
news:x:9:13:news:/var/spool/news:

I don't know who added this extra account but it exists; none of this directories actually exist because rpm's are not installed for news server.

what should be default home directory for user account news? on RHEL 5 I have seen /etc/news and on some RHEL 4 it is /var/spool/news!!

is it ok to remove this account from server?

Last edited by fpmurphy; 05-21-2012 at 12:58 PM..
 

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w2kusers.deny(4)					     Kernel Interfaces Manual						  w2kusers.deny(4)

NAME
w2kusers.deny - Authentication file for Windows 2000 Single Sign On. SYNOPSIS
# Comment account_name DESCRIPTION
The w2kusers.deny is a text file containing a list of user account names. When an account is included in this file, the Windows 2000 Sin- gle Sign-On software verifies only the UNIX authentication for the named account. To add user accounts to the file, use a text editor to enter the user's UNIX account name. The following syntax rules apply to the w2kusers.deny file: Only one user name can be entered on a line. The user name must exactly match a user name in the UNIX /etc/passwd file. Comment lines begin with a pound sign (#). EXAMPLES
The following example shows a typical w2kusers.deny file: # The following file lists account names that are not allowed to use # the Win- dows 2000 authentication information when it is enabled. # Account names must match exactly the user account name in the # /etc/passwd file. # # Syntax: account_1 # . # . # . # account_n # root nobody nobodyV daemon bin uucp uucpa auth cron lp tcb adm ris wnn pop imap Peter Dave Beth Martha FILES
Location of the file. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: ldapcd(8), lw2ksetup(8) Files: etc/w2kusers.deny(4) Windows 2000 Single Sign-OnInstallation and Administration Guide. delim off delim off w2kusers.deny(4)
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