I have been asked to disable all non-essential OS accounts in the vCenter appliance we use (5.5). In the web interface, I found a view of users, including one call "localos" which I am assume are local accounts in Linux used by the appliance. I am a Windows administrator, so 99% of these accounts are meaningless to me. Does anyone know if any of these accounts can/should be disabled and NOT break any vCenter/SSO functionality? Here is the list (which I think is pretty standard for every vCenter appliance installation....thanks, NK.
| HIDDEN FOR SECURITY\Administrator | HIDDEN FOR SECURITY\Administrator | |
| HIDDEN FOR SECURITY\Guest | HIDDEN FOR SECURITY\Guest | |
| daemon | Daemon | |
| deploy | Deploy | User |
| dhcpd | DHCP | server daemon |
| haldaemon | User | for haldaemon |
| ldap | User | for OpenLDAP |
| Mailer | daemon | |
| man | Manual | pages viewer |
| messagebus | User | for D-Bus |
| netdumper | VMware | Netdumper User |
| nobody | nobody | |
| ntp | NTP | daemon |
| polkituser | PolicyKit | |
| postfix | Postfix | Daemon |
| postgres | postgres | |
| root | root | |
| sshd | SSH | daemon |
| stunnel | Daemon | user for stunnel (universal SSL tunnel) |
| suse-ncc | Novell | Customer Center User |
| tcserver | tc | Server User |
| upgrade | upgrade | |
| uuidd | User | for uuidd |
| vc-anon0 | vc-anon0 | |
| vc-anon1 | vc-anon1 | |
| vc-anon10 | vc-anon10 | |
| vc-anon11 | vc-anon11 | |
| vc-anon12 | vc-anon12 | |
| vc-anon13 | vc-anon13 | |
| vc-anon14 | vc-anon14 | |
| vc-anon15 | vc-anon15 | |
| vc-anon2 | vc-anon2 | |
| vc-anon3 | vc-anon3 | |
| vc-anon4 | vc-anon4 | |
| vc-anon5 | vc-anon5 | |
| vc-anon6 | vc-anon6 | |
| vc-anon7 | vc-anon7 | |
| vc-anon8 | vc-anon8 | |
| vc-anon9 | vc-anon9 | |
| wwwrun | WWW | daemon apache |