Re: /etc/passwd in potato

1999-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/11/99 Brad wrote: As a side note, be careful when changing users' shells to /bin/false--some packages depend on the shell being /bin/sh and you'll get minor breakage if you change them. yes I know which i why I wish that they were set properly in the first place (I know for sure that qm

Re: /etc/passwd in potato

1999-11-12 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, David Rocher wrote: > it's because other packages aren't allowed to change /etc/passwd > (provide by base-passwd) cf Debian Policy Manual. but you are free > to remove then! The Debian Policy Manual says that packages may add users to the s

Re: /etc/passwd in potato

1999-11-11 Thread David Rocher
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:40:06AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > you mean that packages are not permitted to add users to my system as > part of their install process? yep, read DPM. > does base-passwd when upgraded compare the existing passwd file with > the one it has and add missing users?

Re: /etc/passwd in potato

1999-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/11/99 David Rocher wrote: it's because other packages aren't allowed to change /etc/passwd (provide by base-passwd) cf Debian Policy Manual. but you are free to remove then! you mean that packages are not permitted to add users to my system as part of their install process? that's sure

Re: /etc/passwd in potato

1999-11-11 Thread David Rocher
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:39:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > also note that i did not install qmail on this system, so why are > qmail users present? there are several users installed here that > have to do with packages i do not have installed... it's because other packages aren't allowed t

/etc/passwd in potato

1999-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
I was looking through the /etc/passwd that was installed on my new potato install (direct not from slink) and I noticed alot of users that have their shell set to /bin/sh that should probably be set to /bin/false. for example i installed qmail on my old redhat system and all the qmail users w