Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -1 dpkg Control: block -2 by -1 On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:31:24PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 > Severity: wishlist > > Currently packages can add users and groups from their postinst scripts > > The admin has no clear indication which users/groups might be created > when selecting packages to install > > This does not meet the needs of all administrators. For example: > - admin wants to use LDAP > - admin wants identical numeric IDs on all hosts to simplify use of > backup and rsync software (e.g. Bacula backs up file ownership numerically) > > A more controlled solution might involve some of the following: > > - in addition to checking for disk space, `apt-get install' would check > if all required users exist > - apt or dpkg would create the users required by the requested packages > - a setting in dpkg.cfg or apt.conf.d would allow the admin to disable > automatic user creation (in other words, apt-get install would abort > before any change to the system and just give the admin a list of > missing users to create manually)
This is something dpkg would have to do. > Workaround: the admin can do things like creating a symlink from > (useradd|adduser) to /bin/false to ensure that dpkg fails on unexpected > user creation. However, this potentially leaves packages partially > installed. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
