On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:18:42AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:21:18 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Creating system users needs to cope with the fact that users might > >have greated them before hand. > adduser copes with that. If a system user to be created does already > exist with the required properties, adduser is a no-op and exists with > a zero exit code. If a system user to be created does already exist > with different attributes, it exists with non-zero exit code, as this > is an error.
And yet /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian-accountname says: To avoid accidentylly zapping a locally used account, we intended to use a name from a name space with low potential for name conflicts. Aren't you the same Marc Haber that wrote that document? Is there a popcon equivalent for the most often reported bug? Does Debian-exim take the prize? Simon. -- oOoOo "And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive oOoOo oOoOo any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies." oOoOo oOoOo - Linus Torvalds oOoOo htag.pl 0.0.22 ::::::: http://www.earth.li/~huggie/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]