On 26/10/2005 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Problem being, if daemons don't remove their (supposedly exclusive-use) > > accounts, you can end in two years with 100 unnecessary accounts in a > > workstation. > > And what bad results does this produce?
it produces at least a bloated passwd/group/shadow file. This is reason enough to consider possible solutions. i agree with Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena that accounts should be removed by the packages which created them. As a backdoor, the adduser package could ask once via debconf whether you want to keep accounts after package purge, for sysadmins who don't want system accounts to be removed at package purges. i quite understand that some sysadmins don't like the idea of system accounts being removed at package purge, but others don't like the idea of a bloated /etc/passwd, so the best would be to provide both possibilities. that could be realized by a appropriate debconf question. ... jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
