user 'operator' --- any use for this?

jcvasquez · 09-08-2008, 11:31 AM

this came up 4 years ago, with no real answer. Here it goes again: the user 'operator' (UID 11) has his home directory in /root (!), belongs to the group 'root' and (if that's not enough) a bash shell. Is there any real need for this user? I just deleted the user and I'm keeping my eyes on the sistem in case anything breaks. Any thoughts?

keefaz · 09-08-2008, 12:07 PM

I ran ' find / -uid 11 ' and no file with operator owner is present here
(in fact I used ' time find / -uid 11 ' , just to see how much time it takes

5 min 02, not bad, athlon XP 2500+, 100GB or so of files in /)

pwc101 · 09-08-2008, 01:39 PM

This post in another forum states that you can delete that and a few others.

http://cplusplus.org/slackware/YaBB.pl?num=1190407286

Disclaimer: I haven't tried!

keefaz · 09-08-2008, 02:12 PM

Or just lock his account if you want: passwd -l operator
(passwd -u operator to unlock account)