On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:26:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:01, Marc Haber wrote: > > > I believe this was done because there is some Debian policy that a > > > weird user name must be created in this case. > > > > No, the weird account name was chosen in absense of a formal policy > > to minimize the chance of clashes with account names deliberately > > created by the local admin. > > I never did understand: what was the problem with "mail"?
First, installing exim4 would probably re-use the account "mail" which might be assigned to a user. This might grant excessive rights to that user (for example, access rights to the mail queue). Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files belonging to that user to be deleted. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]