On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Unix systems have traditionally had a user called "sync" that has no > password and which runs /bin/sync on login (and then, obviously, > immediately exits). It was supposed to be useful when users noticed that i assumed that is what it was for, but i attempted to log in as user sync, and abacadabra, i couldnt. on my system, at least, the sync user is configured to net let anybody log in. > I'm not sure it's particularly useful anymore, however, and it might be > an ancient relic that is not worth keeping. if it is, the sync user should allow users to log in by default. otherwise, your right; its probably not worth keeping. -- gram
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