On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote:
|| 2006/9/25, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|| >The postrm script cannot rely on adduser to be available when purging.
|| I'm not sure about the best action to be taken:
|| - check if deluser exist, and try to deluser if possible => that can
|| leave junks...
|| - other option?
||
|| I'm currently partly off, so I'll investigate asap.
Over here at the BSP[1], the consensus seems to be that:
a) There is no consensus on a system user should be removed at all,
because when file systems are not mounted at the time the user is
removed, files may be left that do no longer belong to any user.
b) In absence of other information, there is a preference to leave the
system user on the system. My take on this: judge for yourself as
package manager if it is likely that there are any files on
unmounted file systems.
c) If you want to remove the system user, and deluser is gone, you're
pretty much out of luck. It's a best effort thing.
Ciao. Vincent.
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP_Utrecht_2006
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