Hi ! I need some advice on bug #435671. I agree with the bug reporter that the user handling part of xrdp should be rewritten. I have looked at what is done in other packages and in most of them gentent is used to check the user existence but there is no check that this is really a system user (so the user can be unrelated to the package). Because of this, some package (ntp) just skip the test and use adduser with --quiet.
On deletion, some package do not use --system option of deluser, so delete a legit non-system user without warning. On my system, there is gdm, openntpd, openssh and vde2. In summary, I think a package should just use adduser --quiet --system in postinst and deluser --quiet --system on purge without checking for existence. It would be convenient for adduser --quiet --system to return an error if the user exists but is not a system user (actually, without --quiet, it says the user exists and is a user system, I will report the bug). What do you think ? -- BOFH excuse #45: virus attack, luser responsible -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
