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15.3. Standard Users

Table 15.4, “Standard Users” lists the standard users configured in the /etc/passwd file by an Everything installation. The groupid (GID) in this table is the primary group for the user. See Section 15.4, “Standard Groups” for a listing of standard groups.
Table 15.4. Standard Users
User UID GID Home Directory Shell Packages
root 0 0 /root /bin/bash setup
bin 1 1 /bin /sbin/nologin setup
daemon 2 2 /sbin /sbin/nologin setup
sys - 3 - - setup
adm 3 4 /var/adm /bin/bash setup
tty - 5 - - setup
disk - 6 - - setup
lp 4 7 /var/spool/lpd /sbin/nologin setup
mem - 8 - - setup
kmem - 9 - - setup
wheel - 10 - - setup
cdrom - 11 - - udev,MAKEDEV
sync 5 (0) /sbin /bin/sync setup
shutdown 6 (0) /sbin /sbin/shutdown setup
halt 7 (0) /sbin /sbin/halt setup
mail 8 12 /var/spool/mail /sbin/nologin setup
news 9 13 /var/spool/news /sbin/nologin setup
uucp 10 14 /var/spool/uucp /sbin/nologin setup
operator 11 (0) /root /sbin/nologin setup
games 12 (100) /usr/games /sbin/nologin setup
gopher 13 30 /usr/lib/gopher-data /sbin/nologin setup
ftp 14 50 /var/ftp /sbin/nologin setup
man - 15 - - setup
oprofile 16 16 /home/oprofile /sbin/nologin oprofile
pkiuser 17 17 /usr/share/pki /sbin/nologin pki-ca,rhpki-ca
dialout - 18 - - udev,MAKEDEV
floppy - 19 - - dev,MAKEDEV
games - 20 - - setup
slocate - 21 - - slocate
utmp - 22 - - initscripts,libutempter
squid 23 23 /var/spool/squid /dev/null squid
pvm 24 24 /usr/share/pvm3 /bin/bash pvm
named 25 25 /var/named /bin/false bind
postgres 26 26 /var/lib/pgsql /bin/bash postgresql-server
mysql 27 27 /var/lib/mysql /bin/bash mysql
nscd 28 28 / /bin/false nscd
rpcuser 29 29 /var/lib/nfs /bin/false nfs-utils
console - 31 - - dev
rpc 32 32 / /bin/false portmap
amanda 33 (6) /var/lib/amanda /bin/false amanda
tape - 33 - - udev,MAKEDEV
netdump 34 34 /var/crash /bin/bash netdump-client, netdump-server
utempter - 35 - - libutempter
vdsm 36 - / /bin/bash kvm, vdsm
kvm - 36 - - kvm, vdsm, libvirt
rpm 37 37 /var/lib/rpm /bin/bash rpm
ntp 38 38 /etc/ntp /sbin/nologin ntp
video - 39 - - setup
dip - 40 - - setup
mailman 41 41 /var/mailman /bin/false mailman
gdm 42 42 /var/gdm /bin/bash gdm
xfs 43 43 /etc/X11/fs /bin/false XFree86-xfs
pppusers - 44 - - linuxconf
popusers - 45 - - linuxconf
slipusers - 46 - - linuxconf
mailnull 47 47 /var/spool/mqueue /dev/null sendmail
apache 48 48 /var/www /bin/false apache
wnn 49 49 /home/wnn /bin/bash FreeWnn
smmsp 51 51 /var/spool/mqueue /dev/null sendmail
puppet 52 52 /var/lib/puppet /sbin/nologin puppet
tomcat 53 53 /var/lib/tomcat /sbin/nologin tomcat
lock - 54 - - lockdev
ldap 55 55 /var/lib/ldap /bin/false openldap-servers
frontpage 56 56 /var/www /bin/false mod_frontpage
nut 57 57 /var/lib/ups /bin/false nut
beagleindex 58 58 /var/cache/beagle /bin/false beagle
tss 59 59 - /sbin/nologin trousers
piranha 60 60 /etc/sysconfig/ha /dev/null piranha
prelude-manager 61 61 - /sbin/nologin prelude-manager
snortd 62 62 - /sbin/nologin snortd
audio - 63 - - setup
condor 64 64 /var/lib/condor /sbin/nologin condord
nslcd 65 (55) / /sbin/nologin nslcd
wine - 66 - - wine
pegasus 66 65 /var/lib/Pegasus /sbin/nologin tog-pegasus
webalizer 67 67 /var/www/html/usage /sbin/nologin webalizer
haldaemon 68 68 / /sbin/nologin hal
vcsa 69 69 - /sbin/nologin dev,MAKEDEV
avahi 70 70 /var/run/avahi-daemon /sbin/nologin avahi
realtime - 71 - - -
tcpdump 72 72 / /sbin/nologin tcpdump
privoxy 73 73 /etc/privoxy /bin/bash privoxy
sshd 74 74 /var/empty/sshd /sbin/nologin openssh-server
radvd 75 75 / /bin/false radvd
cyrus 76 (12) /var/imap /bin/bash cyrus-imapd
saslauth - 76 - - cyrus-imapd
arpwatch 77 77 /var/lib/arpwatch /sbin/nologin arpwatch
fax 78 78 /var/spool/fax /sbin/nologin mgetty
nocpulse 79 79 /etc/sysconfig/nocpulse /bin/bash nocpulse
desktop 80 80 - /sbin/nologin desktop-file-utils
dbus 81 81 / /sbin/nologin dbus
jonas 82 82 /var/lib/jonas /sbin/nologin jonas
clamav 83 83 /tmp /sbin/nologin clamav
screen - 84 - - screen
quaggavt - 85 - - quagga
sabayon 86 86 - /sbin/nologin sabayon
polkituser 87 87 / /sbin/nologin PolicyKit
wbpriv - 88 - - samba-common
postfix 89 89 /var/spool/postfix /bin/true postfix
postdrop - 90 - - postfix
majordomo 91 91 /usr/lib/majordomo /bin/bash majordomo
quagga 92 92 / /sbin/nologin quagga
exim 93 93 /var/spool/exim /sbin/nologin exim
distcache 94 94 / /sbin/nologin distcache
radiusd 95 95 / /bin/false freeradius
hsqldb 96 96 /var/lib/hsqldb /sbin/nologin hsqldb
dovecot 97 97 /usr/libexec/dovecot /sbin/nologin dovecot
ident 98 98 / /sbin/nologin ident
nobody 99 99 / /sbin/nologin setup
users - 100 - - setup
qemu 107 107 / /sbin/nologin libvirt
ovirt 108 108 / /sbin/nologin libvirt
saned 111 111 / /sbin/nologin sane-backends
vhostmd 112 112 /usr/share/vhostmd /sbin/nologin vhostmd
usbmuxd 113 113 / /sbin/nologin usbmuxd
bacula 133 133 /var/spool/bacula /sbin/nologin bacula
ricci 140 140 /var/lib/ricci /sbin/nologin ricci
luci 141 141 /var/lib/luci /sbin/nologin luci
stap-server 155 155 /var/lib/stap-server /sbin/nologin systemtap
avahi-autoipd 170 170 /var/lib/avahi-autoipd /sbin/nologin avahi
pulse 171 171 /var/run/pulse /sbin/nologin pulseaudio
rtkit 172 172 /proc /sbin/nologin rtkit
nfsnobody 65534[a] 65534 /var/lib/nfs /sbin/nologin nfs-utils

[a] nfsnobdy is 4294967294 on 64-bit platforms



 
 
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