tags 572933 +pending thanks On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:29:46 +0100, Olivier Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that the backup user is not reserved to amanda (otherwise > I'd expect it to be named amanda-something).
While it isn't "amanda-something", I think that's just because we had no such convention at the time this username was selected. I don't know, offhand, of anything else in Debian that uses user backup. > An admin may have decided to continue using the backup user even after > amanda is removed, and removing it unconditionally may lead to > preventing other backup programs to work. There's always a tension between "cleaning up after yourself" and trying to anticipate what an admin might have done. In this case, I think I agree with your analysis, so I'll remove the code block that takes user backup out of groups disk and tape on my next upload. Thanks for the suggestion! Bdale
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