On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:01:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: > > This is something that I'd really like to see us sort out in policy, > > since I think we should be able to describe consistent behavior with > > regard to system users and package purging to our users. > > What makes the most sense to me is to not delete the user, and warn > that this has not been done. (I'm really not sure how best to do the > warning besides outputing to STDERR.)
There could be a cron job sending a weekly mail listing all users that are orphans from purged packages. That cron job should honor a white list of local orphan accounts that should not be listed. And there should be a tool to remove (one/all) orphan user(s). > This avoids the obvious problems with deleting a user who may still > own files on the system, and then recreating a different username for > a different program with the same uid which shouldn't have access to > those files The issue are files on offline media or on NFS shared that were not mounted at package purge. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
