I didn't get too many responses to this one, but I had more
or less guessed the outcome. My thanks to the following people
for their input, and those that I haven't recieved yet:
Nickolai Zeldovich
Nikolai P. Iordanov
Daniel Lorenzini
The concensus was that, yes, this is normal. The "tty" user can
be safely removed from the tty group without any ill effects.
Original Message:
>
> During some recent auditing of some of our Solaris machines,
> I noticed that in /etc/group, the tty group contains a reference
> to a "tty" user that does not exist in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.
> I can trace the problem as far back as Solaris 2.5.1 all the way
> to Solaris 2.7 HW 5/99. I even managed to find mention of it
> on SunSolve under BugID's: 1075203 and 1202812, but no mention
> of a fix is made.
>
> Someone *has* to have stumbled across this before and dealt with
> it. Can I get away with just removing the tty user from the
> group line? What does this break if anything? What have others
> done to deal with this besides ignore it?
>
Nick Wilhelm-Olsen Email: wilhelm@lexmark.com
Systems Administrator Phone: (606) 232-xxxx
Lexmark Intl., Inc. Fax: (606) 232-xxxx
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