On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > 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?
If a package's postrm removes the user, and the next package's postinst just calls "adduser", then the admin have no control over the reusing. If you want to allow automatic user/group removal, then adduser should be extended to remember every UID/GID that was ever used by a system user, and never reuse them again even if they have since been removed from /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]