On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:03:48PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > >From looking at an Ubuntu 16.04 System I administer, User "man" (uid 6) is, > apparently the owner of /var/cache/man, which appears to be an area for > translating man pages. Who creates this User?
I don't know about Ubuntu, because this is debian-user. In Debian, the preinst script for the base-passwd package will create a bunch of system users if /etc/passwd is not present, and groups if /etc/group is not present. See /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-passwd.preinst for details. One might ponder under what conditions, exactly, this script would be executed while these files are not yet present. I don't know the inner workings of the debian-installer, so I'm not sure whether this is just a safety net, or an expected part of a normal system installation.
