Previously Josip Rodin wrote:
> I thought it would do all necessary changes after you said "Yes" on the
> prompt.
It does, but the logic to decide which changes are necessary can handle
options like that (and a few others).
Wichert.
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:37:02PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Therein lies the reason why they cannot be simply removed. If you happen to
> > install a new base-passwd and have it redo the group file, all the existing
> > software on the machine that uses them may break.
>
> I suspect you
Previously Jor-el wrote:
> I have seen indications that this is contrary to debian-policy - hence
> my request for revision.
I'll look into revising things on the next base-passwd rewrite which
will be sometime this year.
Wichert.
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Previously Josip Rodin wrote:
> Therein lies the reason why they cannot be simply removed. If you happen to
> install a new base-passwd and have it redo the group file, all the existing
> software on the machine that uses them may break.
I suspect you are not aware of the no-autoremove feature bas
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 02:22:31AM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
> I may one day install a new package which makes the assumption that one
> of these ids are existing, and then end up with a broken package / system.
Therein lies the reason why they cannot be simply removed. If you happen to
install a new
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 08:22, Jor-el wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of the ids that I see in /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master
> are :
>
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> postgres:*:31:32:postgres:/var/lib/postgres:/bin/sh
postgresql installation generates a user and group if they are not
already present, so this is not nee
Hi,
Some of the ids that I see in /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master
are :
games:*:5:100:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh
news:*:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh
postgres:*:31:32:postgres:/var/lib/postgres:/bin/sh
list:*:38:38:SmartList:/var/list:/bin/sh
irc:*:39:39:ircd:/var:/bin/sh
gnats:*:41
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