What is the "fourandsix" user?

Arthur Chance freebsd at qeng-ho.org
Sat Aug 14 16:14:36 UTC 2021


On 14/08/2021 17:11, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> What is the purpose of the "fourandsix" account?
> 
> I noticed this account on a FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE machine:
> 
> fourandsix:[redacted]:6644:6644::0:0:IPv6 user:/home/fourandsix:/bin/bash
> 
> However I can't find which package created it or what its purpose is.
> It was created around April 2021, which I believe is when I upgraded
> to FreeBSD 12.2.

It's not on my 12.2 systems so not a feature of the base OS.

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