On Jan 27, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > the other base accounts on any system where INN or some other news server > is not installed, and given that that's 99% of the Debian systems out > there, I think it's best to leave the shell as invalid and teach > administrators to use the -s option to su. We could change the shell when > inn2 is installed... but that would be a huge pain to do properly and I > don't think it's worth it. This does not look to be harder than creating a new user.
> In hindsight, it probably would have been better for INN and similar > packages to manage their own users directly instead of having the news > account in base-passwd, but that would have raised various other issues, > and in any case it's too late now. Actually I have been thinking about this for a few years: why not remove from base-passwd the accounts which are used only by one or a few cooperating packages (hello, gnats!) and have them created by the packages themselves when needed? -- ciao, Marco
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