Michael Biebl:
> Am 30.06.20 um 11:20 schrieb Niels Thykier:
>> What about removal; is there any
>> action to be done for locking the users?
>
> Good question. Afaics there are no provisions in systemd-sysusers to
> remove users again.
>
> It's my understanding, that there is no clear consensus what should
> happen on package purge. Some packages do manually remove system users
> and go to some length to find files/directories owned by a system
> user/group and remove them.
> Some maintainers are of the opinion, that a system user once created
> should not be removed again.
> I think both viewpoints are valid, but the never-remove-a-system-user is
> probably the safer approach.
>
> Regarding locking: Afaik, systemd-sysusers creates locked system users
> by default. (From the man page: The account will be created disabled, so
> that logins are not allowed.)
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
Just to confirm, what debhelper should do with this is:
On postinst configure:
systemd-sysusers <pkg>.conf
And that is it? I.e. there is no action to be done for any of the other
maintscripts?
~Niels
