* Magnus Ekdahl
| I'm trying to remove the clamav user when purging the clamav package. The
| user clamav is created in postinst using:
Why are you removing that user?
| case "$1" in
| purge)
| TMPFILE=`tempfile`
| chown root:root $TMPFILE
| chmod 600 $TMPFILE
|
| sed 's/clamav:!:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*::://' /etc/shadow > $TMPFILE
| sed '/^$/d' $TMPFILE > /etc/shadow
|
| sed 's/clamav:x:[0-9]*:[0-9]*::\/var:\/bin\/false//' /etc/passwd > $TMPFILE
| sed '/^$/d' $TMPFILE > /etc/passwd
|
| rm $TMPFILE
| ;;
| remove|upgrade|failed-upgrade|abort-install|abort-upgrade|disappear)
| ;;
| *)
| echo "postrm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
| exit 0
| esac
This will grant you a serious or grave bug. Don't mess with
/etc/{passwd,shadow} directly -- that will break if people use
something like ldap for handling those files.
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