From: Mike Hudson (mjhudson@uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 17:09:10 EDT
It seems that there is no documentation about the purpose of username
and group bin. There are no bin-owned suid programs.
alan@nabeth speculated that perhaps one could put a password and shell
on the bin account and let someone log and maintain those
programs without being root.
Mike Hudson
-----Original Message-----
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 ...?
-- Mike Hudson Dept. of Physics Tel: +1-519-888-4567 x2212 Univ. of Waterloo Fax: +1-519-746-8115 Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 http://astro.uwaterloo.ca/~mjhudson
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