pegasus user name

[Andrew Bacchi]

That may be a UID for an application.  Have you installed some software 
that needs to run as user pegasus?  It isn't allowed to login, 
/sbin/noligin, so I suspect some software has created the account. Look 
to see what is in /var/lib/Pegasus, that may provide another clue.

Vivek Mangal wrote:
> Hello ALL,
>
> I am working on RHEL 4.2
> Today, when i saw /etc/passwd  file then
>
> i saw a pegasus user in the file which have GID 500.
> (pegasus:x:100:500:tog-pegasus PoenPegasus WBEM/CIM
> services:/vsr/lib/Pegasus:/sbin/nologin)
> can u tell me what the uses of this account ?
> And if its a system user then why it take GID 500 ?
> and i hav no user which hav 500 UID / GID ?
>
> one more thing
> pppuse have 1001:1001 GID and PID
> (pppuser:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/pppuser:/usr/sbin/ppplogin)
> and nfsnobody hav 4294967294:4294967294 GID and PID
> (nfsnobody:x:4294967294:4294967294:Anonymous NFS
> User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin)
> Both user are system user then why they take more then 500 GID / UID  ?
>
> Please tell me the reason
>   

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Andrew Bacchi
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