questions about /etc/shadow

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

On Monday 08 October 2007 17:27:22 m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 01:03:32 +1000 (EST)
> >From: tech user <techwww at yahoo.com.cn>
> >
> >--- Rajesh kanna <tr_rajeshkanna at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> nobody:*:13785:0:99999:7:::   -->  represents system account
> >>
> >> dbus:!!:13785:0:99999:7:::      --> represents service account
> >
> >Thanks.
> >what's the difference between a system account and a service account?
>
> Root, or techwww, are system accounts. apache, or nobody, or rpc, or ntp,
> are service accounts, not something anyone logs in to.
>
>      mark

Well, service account are usually users created only to own a process, for 
instance, apache one, proftpd etc...

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