On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > > > I'm afraid this is backwards. If you want to go and hunt down packages > > > that rely on those global static users and get their maintainers > > > (preferably in Debian) to work on a migration to dynamically-allocated > > > system users, perhaps after that it would be worth removing the global > > > static users. Until then, they need to stay where they are. > > > > Seems like detecting broken packages from system changes would already be > > part of the Ubuntu qual. process. > > It's always better to not break things in the first place. > Sometimes breaking things is necessary for forward progress. > > > But, OK, I'll setup a box, remove users, and run a script that > > installs/uninstalls everything one by one from the default repos and > > makes note of any packages that break. I'll then open bugs with the > > Debian maintainers of those packages to modify their install/uninstall > > script. > > Sounds great, thanks! > > Note that I will not remove these users in any event: > > root (obviously) > daemon (required by LSB) > bin (required by LSB) > sync (specialised, described in users-and-groups documentation) > games (shared among many packages, likely to be too disruptive) > man (man-db is widely installed anyway so any gain is not worth it) > mail (often has many non-system-owned files, too disruptive) > www-data (often has many non-system-owned files, too disruptive) > nobody (obviously) > > You can refer to /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz for > what's known about various system users. > > Great info. Thanks!
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