Doug Crompton on 10 Jan 2005 06:37:38 -0000


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[PLUG] Mail Question


I am running SuSe Linux and my passwd file by default had a number of
entries such as:

man
ftp
amanda
cyrus
at

and many others. My question is - why do I have these? Why do I need
these? I am getting junk mail stored in /var/spool/mail in these account
names. Can I delete all these non existent users? or if for some reason it
is wise to have them in there can I block email - unknown user - to them?
What is the minimum user base that should be in passwd?

Doug


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