Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I needed to install passwd because gdk-pixbuf indirectly depends on > it and I noticed that several users being installed already existed > on my 10.3.5 G5. These are lp, postfix, eppc, qtss, cyrus, and > mailman.
Also appserver. > I didn't add them to my system, so they must be part of the stock install I see them also on my 10.3.5 that has never had Fink and was not an upgrade from 10.2. The users we add have the same UID as on the base system. Note that file ownership within a .deb is stored as numerical ID. > Should those entries be removed from the 10.3 passwd? Probably. > Also, since adding users can be potentially nasty if a uid collision > occurs, would it make sense to splitoff each new user and have them > depend on something like passwd-common? This way there is more > granular control as to what users are added by individual packages. Yes. That's one of many possible improvements and replacements for our current hacked-together approach that have been discussed, but nobody has acted upon any of them lately:( See also the Feature Requests tracker #642075. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
