What is a 'system account file'?
Dan Radu Dragomir
radu at aom.ro
Thu Feb 11 14:23:57 UTC 2010
Detlef Lechner wrote:
> Hello Avi,
>
> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:23 +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
>> Detlef Lechner wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> man usermod: "DESCRIPTION: The usermod command modifies the system
>>> account files to reflect the changes that are specified on the command
>>> line."
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> What is a 'system account file'?
>>>
>> There's three, as pertaining to users, generally:
>>
>> /etc/passwd user configuration
>> /etc/groups group configuration
>> /etc/shadow user passwords
>> /etc/gshadow secure group configuration
>>
>> There's more info here:
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/s1-acctsgrps-files.html
>>
>
> I believe that your answer only partially meets my question. For
> example,
> why does Ubuntu consider it necessary to create a user account named
> kernoops (which it does in /etc/passwd)?
>
> Regards,
> Detlef
>
Since you asked that question i think it's safe to assume you are
talking about ubuntu server, the user kernoops being the user under
which the package kerneloops is running (nice app also :P)
Regards,
Dan
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