Re: exploring debian's users and groups
(oh no, a crosspost)
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:35:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> The man program (sometimes) runs as user man, so it can write cat
> pages to /var/cache/man
>
> HELP: My system has no files owned by user man, and I don't see
> the point of the user, aside from symmetry.
The man program (sometimes) runs as user man, so it can write cat
pages to /var/cache/man.
> uucp:
>
> HELP: Presumably used for UUCP, which I know nothing of.
>
> HELP: Why is minicom owned by group uucp? Is this a bug?
Probably as a convenient but ugly way to get access to the serial
port, or something.
> proxy:
>
> Like daemon, this user and group is used by some daemons
> (specifically, proxy daemons) that don't have dedicated user id's
> and that need to own files. For example, group proxy is used by
> pdnsd.
>
> HELP: What uses user proxy?
squid, at least.
> majordom:
>
> Majordomo has a statically allocated uid on Debian systems for
> historical reasons.
>
> HELP: Do we still even ship that buggy old POS?
Not if apt-cache is behaving itself today.
> postgres:
>
> HELP: Presumably used by the postgresql database?
>
> www-data:
>
> HELP: Er, I should know this, but this box doesn't run apache and
> I'm offline.
Used by apache as the user/group, typically is the user/group that
owns web content.
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