Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org> wrote:

> On 2022-06-27 13:32 +02, Martijn van Duren <openbsd+t...@list.imperialat.at> 
> wrote:
> > For the group-id I went with 92, which was used by _rtadvd. It's one up
> > from _snmpd and has been used previously by _rtadvd, which should make
> > it the perfect candidate. According to florian rtadvd never stored
> > anything on disk and chances of any lingering rtadvd binary still around
> > on a modern install still running approach 0. So I don't see any risks
> > there. If someone kept the old user/group around sysmerge should change
> > _rtadvd to _agentx, which florian, sthen, and I also don't see an issue
> > with.
> 
> What I mean was, if they didn't clean up they still have _rtadvd:_rtadvd
> which will become _rtadvd:_agentx. Operationally this should not a problem,
> nothing is supposed to use that user.
> 

We discussed this;  After a few years, we don't care about the potential for
problems users create by having ancient master.passwd left over.

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