Package: systemd-journal-remote Version: 235-1 Severity: normal Since systemd 235, systemd-journal-gateway has DynamicUsers=yes. This means there is no longer need to allocate a static UID for it.
I have not checked if it is safe to remove the user on upgrades. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages systemd-journal-remote depends on: ii adduser 3.116 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.55.1-1 ii libgnutls30 3.5.15-2 ii libmicrohttpd12 0.9.55-1 ii systemd 234-3 systemd-journal-remote recommends no packages. systemd-journal-remote suggests no packages.