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I recently found another home directory for a user called "news".
I didn't add it. Could it come from something I installed? (I remember installing texlive core recently and emacs)
But otherwise I dont know where this showed up from.
Thanks.
in /etc/passwd
news:x:999:999::/home/news:/bin/bash
in /etc/group
news:x:999:
Last edited by lamdacore (2010-11-22 04:06:01)
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> cd /var/abs
> grep -R "news" $(find . -name *.install) | grep useradd
./community/inn/inn.install: grep -e "^news:" /etc/passwd 2>&- >&- || useradd -r -m -g news news 2>&- >&-
./community/leafnode/leafnode.install: useradd -u $gid -g news -d /var/spool/news -s /bin/false news &>/dev/null
Did you install "leafnode" or "inn"?
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Yes I was playing with inn a month back! But don't have it installed now.
Also thanks for the
> cd /var/abs
> grep -R "news" $(find . -name *.install) | grep useradd
I was wondering how to find that information out, using the abs didn't occur to me.
So whats a "clean" way to remove the news user/group?
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I did the following for now after reading the man pages:
userdel -r news
Please correct me if this is wrong or there is a nicer way of doing this!
cheers.
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That seems fine. Normally a package would remove a user or group it adds once you are no longer using it but I guess that is a bit risky with a common name like "news".
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