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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Aug 09, Karsten Behrmann [BearPerson AT gmx.net] wrote:
> Hi all!
> Just wanted to use this thread to get a general opinion on what should be
> in the ISO /etc/passwd and /etc/group. We have a minimum at [0], but static
> /dev or udev already wants a few groups not in there. However, I'd kindof
> like to keep the lists minimal. Why would you want to have a MySQL user if 
> you
> never had it installed?
> 
> This is the current contents of my p4 section:
> ==passwd==
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> bin:x:1:1::/dev/null:/bin/false
> nobody:x:65534:65534::/dev/null:/bin/false
> ==group==
> root:x:0:
> bin:x:1:
> tty:x:10:
> sys:x:11:
> kmem:x:12:
> ppp:x:13:
> lp:x:14:
> floppy:x:15:
> disk:x:16:
> audio:x:17:
> users:x:100:
> nogroup:x:65534:
> ==EOF==
> Comments?

Like I mentioned in IRC a bit ago, I think we should add the wheel group to
this list.  Right now we don't define wheel at all and that's kind of odd.
Production systems with multiple administrators expect to use that group,
for those boxes it's much more important than 'audio'.

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