Package: libuuid1
Version: 1.40.2-1+lenny1
Severity: important

The postinst uses useradd to add a user/group. Policy section 9.2.2 says:

  Packages which need a user or group, but can have this user or
  group allocated dynamically and differently on each system, should use
  adduser --system to create the group and/or user. adduser will check for
  the existence of the user or group, and if necessary choose an unused id
  based on the ranges specified in adduser.conf."

Using useradd directly will ignore any user tuning of the ranges used in
adduser.conf.

Thanks.
Michael Spang


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable'), (250, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-0-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libuuid1 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libuuid1 recommends no packages.

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