Re: /etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:46:15PM +0200, 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

/etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
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

RE: /etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
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

Re: /etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- 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

Re: /etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
hmm will it be fixed or isn't it treated as a bug ? dpkg -s only knows about a file if it is actually in a package. /etc/passwd is not contained in one package. The installation creates it, then base-passwd updates it. This is not a bug.