On 10/26/05, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:11:00AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peńa > wrote: > > > That really depends on the daemon itself don't you think? There's a number > > of > > daemons that don't create any file at all or, if they do, are created > > only on a given directory which is removed on purge. In these cases, > > removing > > the user on postrm's purge might make sense. As I said, that would be an > > option. > > It is still possible that those daemons _read_ some files (e.g. config > files), and the admin did a chown/chgrp to the daemon's user. Removing > the user and reusing the UID/GID will suddenly make those files
Removing the user is 'fine', it's the reusing that's the issue. But isn't that your own fault if you choose to reuse numbers?
