On Wednesday 26 October 2005 23:38, Stephen Gran wrote: > While I appreciate the effort at a standard shell script fragment for > 'install a user', and think that it would be useful as reference and for > reuse, I tend to think making it a dh_ fragment doesn't work in the > normal use cases I can think of. Ordinarily, when a package installs a > user, the logic of the maintainer script goes something like: > > add user > > chown a bunch of stuff to the new user > > start the daemon
If chowning a bunch of stuff is the only thing most package installs do couldn't you just add a file with a list of things to chown for the dh_user command to use? -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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