[H-GEN] Just finished installing a new server, now looking at things to lock it down.

[Johannes Sprigode]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:35, Ewan Edwards wrote:
> Before putting it into production as an ftp server, I was wondering
> about removing some of the user accounts in the /etc/passwd
> (& /etc/shadow) file.  There are a few that don't seem to be of any
> use at all. eg: news, games, gopher, smmsp, nscd, etc.

Unless you <b>really</b> use them there is no need to hang on to them. 
Depending on your linux distribution a 'userdel -rf username' in a console 
will get rid of them for you.

Cheers

Johannes