Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Removing system users on package purge is widely regarded a bug since >> one cannot guarantee that the local admin hasn't used the account for >> other things as well. Additionally, removing the system user on >> package purge might leave orphaned files around. If the maintainer >> decides to remove a user in postinst, that can be done with an >> explicit deluser call. > > 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.
"One cannot guarantee that the local admin hasn't used the account for other things as well." Please read. Thomas