Can i delete system default groups which does not have any users or are of no use?

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Issue

  • can i delete the groups below, also provide the usage of each group.
• dip     • floppy     • games     • kmem     • lock    
• man     • mem        • slocate   • tty      • utmp        
  • can i change permissions of unused service directories?Both samba & isdn services are disabled in chkconfig.
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Dec 22  2005 /var/spool/samba/
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Oct  5  2004 /var/spool/vbox/

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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