Delete system generated users

[venkata]

Dear All,

we are planing to delete system created users and groups like [Media, nobody, hast, messagebus, avahi,ladvd, Auditdistd, pop, _dhcp, man, news, games, kmem].

if we delete above users, is anything will happen or is those users are required to execute any back end codes?

thank you so much for advance.

Regards
Venkata

 

[Pezo]

Why would you want to delete them, they don't do anything?
Also don't do that, they are there for a reason.

 

[venkata]

Why would you want to delete them, they don't do anything?
Also don't do that, they are there for a reason.

Dear Pezo,

Thank you so much for your replay.
We are creating some users. all are becoming lot. so we are planning to remove unwanted users.

If they are there for a reason, can you please help us to know those reasons if possible.

 

[danb35]

Most of them are there to run various system services. Don't delete them.

 

[venkata]

Most of them are there to run various system services. Don't delete them.

Dear danb35,

Thank you so much for your reply.

is there any possibility to hide OS created user accounts/group in GUI?

 

[garm]

With that level of user management I would suggest hooking up the server to a directory and manage users/groups from there.