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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589867

--- Comment #13 from Paul Howarth <p...@city-fan.org> 2010-06-10 07:47:48 EDT 
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(In reply to comment #12)
> > I wouldn't use "logcheck" as the default group in %defattr as it will make 
> > it
> > the default group for everything, including the binaries, documentation, 
> > cron
> > scripts etc., which is probably not what you want.
> > 
> > I would have your package create and own the /var/lib/logcheck directory 
> > rather
> > than having useradd create it in %pre, so that the directory gets removed if
> > the package is removed from the system.    
> 
> That's a little difficult. First of all, I fully agree with you, but what
> happens with the "logcheck"-user when the package is removed. Created users
> should be left on the system, afaik. When the user is left, why remove his 
> home
> dir?    

The user would be left on the system, but wouldn't be actively used for
anything - it would just own any files that may have been left around from the
running of the program - if any. The absence of a home directory wouldn't
matter for that purpose.

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