serverbeach2 and serverbeach3 reboot

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 4 18:27:19 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:27 -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2008-08-04 08:17:50 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> > yes, it is something worth inquiring about.
> > 
> > also - it looks like something on the systems was not running properly
> > b/c they all had a lot of unsendable mail.
> > 
> > hence all the undelivered mail notices.
> There was another problem that maybe have been related to undelivered
> mail - apparently, since January 19th, there has been a FAS account
> registered with the username "root" (I guess FAS1 didn't block this
> one).  The account name was just changed to something else yesterday
> :-/

/me shudders
root? seriously? Let's go ahead and validate all the other names we
don't like the idea of:

1. pretty much any daemon username in any pkg in fedora
2. all numerics
3. all of the base system usernames

-sv

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