On 12/04/11 22:43, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Also, we need to provide a way for sysadmin to know they can safely remove >> a stale >> system user. > > If we could do that, we could just remove them automatically and not > bother the sysadmin.
Not necessarily. We can't be sure there aren't any files lying around (at least not efficiently enough) to cause problems with UID reuse etc, but we may inform the admin that at least from the packaging point of view, the user/group isn't needed anymore. He can then decide to take appropriate action if he feels the house-keeping is necessary. It could simply be a matter of using the "User Name/Comment" field to write something like "formerly used by package X; may be removed". Admittedly not strictly necessary, but nice for those cases where you check your /etc/passwd a few years later and ask yourself where that user came from. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da61068.8000...@debian.org