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<H1>[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Tue Sep 18 11:53:46 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Liam R E Quin at 17/09/12 17:23 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 14:56 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>>><i> Well according to folklore (which is about all I've got to go on here),
</I>>><i> before there were proper infrastructures in place to allow users to
</I>>><i> reboot machines, sysadmins might give "trusted" workstation users the
</I>>><i> passwords to these accounts which then let them "login to reboot" (I
</I>>><i> guess a forerunner to the "Start->Shutdown" oxymoron!)
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</I>><i> Yes - I seem to remember that V7 and also 4.1, 4.2 BSD shipped with
</I>><i> several such pseudo-users, although they may've been a local addition at
</I>><i> the university where I used them in the early 1980s.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> They are good for environments with users you don't trust but who have
</I>><i> to be able to do specific admin tasks... but they could for sure be
</I>><i> added locally in those environments.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Of course, if you have a university with 5,000 workstations, it'd be
</I>><i> nice not to have to make changes to each of them... but, it's likely
</I>><i> that changes are already made, and if one of them is to enable NIS then
</I>><i> you can add the pseudo-users globally anyway.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Every account is a potential break-in vector, however unlikely, so it
</I>><i> seems better not to ship with them.
</I>
Yup, rolling out changes to large numbers of workstations would be done
via something like puppet these days anyway, so creating user accounts
en-mass even if they are not shipped by default should be pretty trivial.
I think that's enough consensus to drop them.
Cheers
Col
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