On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > A patch is applied in Ubuntu for quite a while in order to avoid > importing system users (UID<1000) into passdb.tdb from the maitnainer > scripts.
> Any reason to not apply this patch? If there's one, then I'll mark the > bug as wontfix and move on.... Otherwise, I'll apply the patch. See my earlier comments in <20080330015442.gb31...@dario.dodds.net>: > I'm fairly indifferent to this patch. I can't see any reason why system > users should be excluded; adding them to the pdb doesn't give them passwords > or otherwise permit people to connect as these users, it just makes them > better visible to Samba - which means that if they do show up in any ACLs on > shared files, clients will get a more user-friendly display. > So conceptually I think this patch is wrong, but I don't have any strong > opinion either way. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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