* sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 14:20]: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > If a package's postrm removes the user, and the next package's postinst > > just calls "adduser", then the admin have no control over the reusing. > > > > If you want to allow automatic user/group removal, then adduser should > > be extended to remember every UID/GID that was ever used by a system > > user, and never reuse them again even if they have since been removed > > from /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group. > > i don't think removing and reusing users is a good idea in practice. > what harm would there be in simply leaving the user account on the > system permenantly, with maybe locking the account and setting the > shell to /bin/false?
Yep, that's probably best practice. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
