On 2010-03-02 12:34 +0100, Alexey Salmin wrote: > Just wondering: why there are so many users and groups which are not > created on package installation?
Historical reasons, often. Most of these users and groups are expected to exist on a Unix system. Besides, the list of static system users and groups is really append-only: base-passwd must not remove a user or group from existing systems for obvious reasons, so a UID or GID that has been given out once cannot be reallocated ever. If this were to be redesigned today, I suspect that users like news, uucp, www-data or list would be allocated dynamically. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3zndj2v....@turtle.gmx.de
