Re: user info in 3.0

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From: Jess Anderson
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 12:56

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In article <1992Oct8.143946.18453@znext.cts.com> zeke@znext
(james dehnert) writes:

>Doing an nidump of passwd shows a user info with no password defined.

>  Does anyone know what this user is is used for if anything?
>  Is it safe to delete it, or at least give it a long garbege password?

I have no such user.  I deleted the 'me' user, but I believe
that's the only one.

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