Re: The 'users' gid: sync, games, and man
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:35:17PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:34:19PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > sync:
> >
> > FreeBSD appears not to have this user. All GNU/Linux systems I looked
> > at (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) set its primary group to root. As far as
> > I know the only thing sync is ever used for is running /bin/sync,
>
> what do you mean it is used for running sync?
>
> $ ls -l /bin/sync
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9752 Feb 8 10:06 /bin/sync
$ grep sync /etc/passwd
sync:x:4:100:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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