On Fri, Nov 13, 2026 at 16:48:05 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > On one of my Debian/unstable machines, there is now an iperf user > in "/etc/passwd": > > iperf:x:113:122::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin > > Is there any reason? Under which circumstances is it created?
Most likely it was created by the postinstall script of some package that you either *have*, or *once had*. If you don't find it in "grep -r iperf /var/lib/dpkg/info" then it might have been created by a package you once had, but have since deleted. Deleting the package will generally not delete whatever users/groups were created by it.
