On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:54:50AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > There is currently no policy on how should per-package users be created and > > removed. Eeven though the 'UID and GID classes' sections determines that > > packages _should_ use adduser --system in some occasions it doesn't > > Make it *must* use adduser --system, *if* they add an user at all.
Some packages might need to use a hardcoded UID (and there's a UID range for those) those don't use 'adduser --system' > > > - maintainers scripts should create a system user for their daemon in > > postinst. User creation should not fail if the user already exists > > (example code should be provided here, since this is sometimes not done > > properly in maintainer scripts). Maintainer scripts can ask to the admin if > > the user already exists. > > Maintainer scripts can ask about an already existing user *if and only if* > it is not a system user... no more useless, aggravating postinst prompts, > please. True. I would love to see a sample for that so that postinst scripts would reuse that. Actually, it could even be integrated into a dh_adduser script, couldn't it? Regards Javier
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