Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Red Hat

Two news user accounts in RHEL!

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Two news user accounts in RHEL!
# 1  
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..
# 2  
Old 05-21-2012
Can you explain your need in more detail please

I am not sure rpm relation to home directory in this case

To remove the user make sure no application/process/service is running with the user
# 3  
Old 05-21-2012
I want to remove one of those accounts. I hesitate in removing one of those accounts because,

1> the account "news" is created at the time of installation by system, and I am not sure about dependencies of this account.

2> I am not sure about its default home directory, whether it is /etc/news or it is /var/spool/news.


No application/process/service is running on the server with news user..
# 4  
Old 05-21-2012
See RHEL4 - List of Standard Users.

/var/spool/news was standard location in RHEL3. Was the system upgrade from RHEL3 to RHEL4?
This User Gave Thanks to fpmurphy For This Post:
parth_buch
# 5  
Old 05-21-2012
Also, you have one user, but two entries.
# 6  
Old 05-22-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by mark54g
Also, you have one user, but two entries.
confusion started there only.. I was wondering account with which home directory I should remove.

@fpmurphy Thanks for the link of standard users. it cleared confusion.
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. OS X (Apple)

Thunderbird user accounts

Hi All I am trying to find a way to set-up a thunderbird account by using a script, i have been trying to to add the lines into the pref.js file but it keeps getting overwritten any help would be great thanks Adam (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: ab52
0 Replies

2. Solaris

Help with user accounts

Hi All, How to know all the shells a user has access. Thank you . (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: rama krishna
0 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Difference between : Locked User Account & Disabled User Accounts in Linux ?

Thanks AVKlinux (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: avklinux
3 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

single user mode - user accounts passwords

hello ppl, someone must be able to help with this --> I have an old NCR tower 32 with an ADDS terminal running a unix version 020102 (Im not sure if thats correct but its unix for sure). I have no user names and no passwords and need to login to read a tape. Is there any way to do that? I hear... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: orestis
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Creating user accounts

Hi, I have written a program using shell scripting. When you run the file it will asks you to enter the user name, if the user exists it says " user exists " if not it will displays like " user doesnt exist" and then asks you like " do you want to add user with options Yes or No " if you say... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vishwaprasad
1 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

User Accounts

Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to display a list of all existing user accounts on the system, not neccesarily looged in. Thanks in advance Stephen (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sroberts82
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help with user accounts

I have a root access to a UNIX system. I want to create another account with administrative permissions (create users, delete them, manage print and system configuration), how do I do that? I have a Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9) installed. Please help. :o (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: neked
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

User Accounts

I have found a script to create user accounts. But there are a few lines i dont understand. Can someone help me with this? Here's the code: ###################################### while ; do ACCT=${USER_ACCT}${START} START=`expr $START + 1` START=`echo ${START} | awk... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sensor
3 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What happened to my user accounts?

Ahhhh!!!!!!!! All of my user accounts can no longer login. I suspected a corrupt passwd file, but everything looks OK and the passwd file works when I copy it to another system. All user accounts cannot login...they recieve a "No directory defined" error, but I can logon using root just fine. I... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: jskillet
13 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question