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From: FLYNN%EVALUN11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mark F. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Special users (bin)
Message-ID: <26177@adm.brl.mil>
Date: 1 Mar 91 15:57:22 GMT
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We have just reveived an HP Apollo workstation running HP-UX. I have
noticed that the user bin has the password disabled. The HP rep here
told me that this is meant to stay this way, as bin is a special user,
meaning one isn't supposed to use it. I had always thought that bin
was there to allow one to manage the various bin and lib directories
without using the (dangerous) powers of root. Who is right?

Mark Flynn
Departamento de Fisica Atomica y Nuclear
Universidad de Granada
Spain