> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 06:41:10PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> (Cc to the relevant bug added.) >> >> On ma, 2011-04-11 at 14:05 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> > Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: System users: removing them"): >> > > Thus, I propose to change 9.2.2 "UID and GID classes", the paragraph >> on >> > > uids in the range 100-999, to add the following sentence to the end >> of >> > > the paragraph: >> > > >> > > Packages must not remove system users and groups they have >> > > created. >> > >> > But shouldn't we say they _must_ lock package-specific system users >> > and groups when the package is removed ? >> >> I think that's a good idea. Steve Langasek in the bug (#621833) and >> others agree, so I think there's a strong consensus on that. > > Also, we need to provide a way for sysadmin to know they can safely remove > a stale > system user.
If we could do that, we could just remove them automatically and not bother the sysadmin. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org