On 2026-11-13 10:59:57 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2026 at 16:48:05 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On one of my Debian/unstable machines, there is now an iperf user > > in "/etc/passwd": > > > > iperf:x:113:122::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin > > > > Is there any reason? Under which circumstances is it created? > > Most likely it was created by the postinstall script of some package > that you either *have*, or *once had*.
Very unlikely. This is very recent (last night). > If you don't find it in "grep -r iperf /var/lib/dpkg/info" then it > might have been created by a package you once had, but have since > deleted. Deleting the package will generally not delete whatever > users/groups were created by it. In addition to iperf, only bash-completion has a match. I haven't deleted any package. There have been 2 iperf upgrades, though. And it has been created during the first one. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
