Re: Creating a user/group for a package

2011-01-30 Thread David Given
On 30/01/11 03:02, The Fungi wrote: [...] > This has been discussed to death in years past, but it's generally > considered more dangerous to delete accounts in package management > than to leave them behind. That's fine by me; less work! I've done this; thanks. Although I might suggest that the

Re: Creating a user/group for a package

2011-01-29 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:30:08AM +, David Given wrote: [...] > at uninstall time neither delete their group, timidity never > deletes its user at uninstall time at all, and while ssh does > delete its user, won't this cause problems if orphaned files are > left with that uid? [...] This has

Creating a user/group for a package

2011-01-29 Thread David Given
Hello, I'm packaging a daemon that wants to run in its own user and group. I'm having trouble finding any information on how to handle creating/deleting these cleanly. I've looked it the New Maintainer's Guide and the Policy Manual but don't see any reference to doing this. I've looked at some ex