On 01-Sep-2000 Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system > which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were already > allocated for some users sometie ago, why not to use them?). > > dpkg -S /etc/passwd tells /etc/passwd belongs to no package (very nice...) > > Now, please don't advise just get one free number; if you can respond > - why doesn't /etc/passwd belong to any package ?
it is generated, not provided. the package in question is a mix of base-files and base-passwd. > - why was user 'irc' removed ? > - is it safe to create user with uid 39 that was used for irc some time ago? in general it is a bad idea to add system level users, Debian may need uid 39 to be something else.