On Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:18:13 pm Bob Proulx wrote: > Hi Scott! > > Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Upon a purge it should remove the user that it added. > > > > No, actually it shouldn't. Removing the user in the postinst leaves the > > possibility of leaving unowned files in the file system, which is worse. > > What files would be owned by the policyd-spf user and left behind? If > there is that possibility then those files should be dealt with too.
I checked and if that were the only issue, I think it would be safe. The package installs no files owned by that user (they are all root) and the policy server doesn't write to disk. The other issue is that postfix-policyd-spf-python uses the same user (It seemed excessive to have different ones as username are a namespace and I don't want to consume more of it than necessary). For it to be safe to remove on purge, postfix-policyd-spf-python would have to also not need the user. I think it would be a bit of a mess to change that now. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
