Safe to disable unused accounts?

From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Thu Sep 23 2004 - 14:00:40 EDT

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Hi. I'm running Tru64 5.1b, pk 3 on a variety of ES machines.

I was just wondering if it is OK to disable (ie lock) some of the system default
acounts. The accounts in question are:

auth
bin
cron
daemon
lp
tcb
uucp
uucpa

Apparently these accounts have never ever been accessed, so I would assume it's
safe to lock them (maybe even remove then entirely), but just wanted to be sure.
TIA

Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.

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