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Old 05-14-2007, 06:42 PM
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No you don't have to remove them and they are not useless. These users or groups used by Linux services or daemons internally as well as to start service.

If you remove them most services won’t start.

Also note that all these users are locked in CentOS by default and they cannot login
Using /sbin/nologin shell.
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