Purpose of bin account and group etc ...

From: Mike Hudson (mjhudson@uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 10:40:30 EDT

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Hello managers

Can anyone point me to online documentation describing the default
accounts found in /etc/passwd and their purpose?

For example, there is a user called bin. All programs in /usr/bin have
user=bin and group=bin ... does it matter whether they are owned by bin
or have user=root and group=system like everything else ...?

I couldn't find a description of these accounts in the Digital System
Administration book ...

Thanks
Mike

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