On Aug 07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HELP: I notice that /etc/news/leafnode/config and even /etc/news > are here owned by news.news. Which is odd, because those > arn't things the programs should be editing on the fly. What > gives? The package is buggy.
>uucp: > > HELP: Presumably used for UUCP, which I know nothing of. The uucp subsystem needs its own user and group. > HELP: Why is minicom owned by group uucp? Is this a bug? Yes, it's a bug. Debian does not use group uucp to deal with serial port since a very long time, maybe never did. >majordom: > > Majordomo has a statically allocated uid on Debian systems for > historical reasons. > > HELP: Do we still even ship that buggy old POS? And can someone No. This is why I repeatedly requested the base-passwd maintainer to remove this user. Same thing for the msql user. >fax: >voice: They may be used by mgetty/sendfax. >dip: > > HELP: WHat did this group's name signify? DIaluP? dip is a program used to manage SLIP connections. I support any effort to reduce the number of users created by default. Even if e.g. gnats needs a statically assigned user, it should be created when the package is installed, not by base-passwd. -- ciao, Marco