Harald Braumann <ha...@unheit.net> writes: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <fran...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote:
>>> AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using >>> the same user. >> Why not? There are already multiple packages that use the same user, >> e.g. www-data. You should only create it and never remove to avoid >> breakages for other packages installed at the same time. > > www-data is a globally allocated user. It would of course be possible to > switch to such a user, but that would need changes of base-passwd and > all jabber-related packages. Well, yes, but I don't see why you'd need a globally allocated user. Why don't you just use the same username as the other package? I don't see why that wouldn't work, and I don't see anything in Policy 9.2 that says you shouldn't do that. Hm. I suppose that you'd get in trouble if either package removed the user on purge or renamed the user to something else without coordination. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
