On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 08:00:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > As Guillem mentioned, I as a Debian user and system administrator would > dearly like to be able to configure Debian to delete created users when > the package is purged. I understand the reasons why we don't think this > is safe to do by default, but as an administrator, I care very, very > strongly about the property that installing a package and then purging it > should put the system back into the state it was in before the package was > first installed. I strongly dislike packages that leave "junk" behind. > > I realize that the cost of this is that I cannot use system users for > other purposes or give them ownership of files that aren't tracked by the > package manager or maintainer scripts, and I'm quite okay with this > tradeoff. > > I think Policy should say something like "created users and groups should > not be removed by default, but may be removed on purge if the local > administrator explicitly requests this, either for that package or as a > system-wide default."
That could technically be achived by giving deluser a configuration file option modifying deluser --system's behavior, defaulting in not deleting the user. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
