On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC):
>
I think users and their passwords are the least of the problem.
A fresh install of jessie sets up about 30 system users before
the admin ($UID=1000) gets a look-in. So you can end up with your
email system being owned by statd.messagebus instead of
Debian-exim.Debian-exim for example.
You can diagnose the extent of the problem with a command like:
# find / -mount -not -group 0 -exec ls -ld {} \; -o -not -user 0 -exec ls -ld {} \; | less
but fixing it is probably a matter of for ... chown ...
Cheers,
David.
Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking, since all those system users are, in the end, users. It was those I had in mind. This computer only happens to have one human user, me. I am, indeed, the least of my worries :-)
Mark