Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org> writes: > This is fixed in -3 by moving the creation of the firebird user from > -server-common.postinst to individual server packages, which are not > pulled by libreoffice. The --shell option is also dropped so the user > created has /bin/false for shell (the default for adduser --system). > Thanks for the detailed bug report and sorry for causing trouble.
Wow, thank you for the quick fix! > I wonder if there is a clean way to fix the situation for people who > already have the user created because of the libreoffice upgrade. > I could possibly come up with something to change the shell to > /bin/false if the user exists, is a system user and its shell is > /bin/bash. > Dropping the user seems way dangerous to do safely, but I am open to > suggestions. Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it. Testing is testing; sometimes stuff like this happens on a transient basis. If someone notices, they can just delete the user, and no harm done. It's hardly the only system user that gets created on a typical desktop system. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
