Hi All,
I got this userid apache with the same userid and groupid and /sbin/nologin and the /www/a home folder is empty.
Can I just delete this userid? How can I investigate if userid have something to do with the application?
Thanks for any comment you may add.
apache is the user for the web server.
Not to offend you, but if you are not familiar enough with user ids and applications, do not delete things. As well, you do not delete user IDs you remove the user and their files. Otherwise, you open yourself up to security issues by leaving users on the system, regardless of their home directories.
I would recommend that you, as root, run this command, to find out what package a file comes from:
rpm -qf <filename>