On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > If a package's postrm removes the user, and the next package's postinst > just calls "adduser", then the admin have no control over the reusing. > > If you want to allow automatic user/group removal, then adduser should > be extended to remember every UID/GID that was ever used by a system > user, and never reuse them again even if they have since been removed > from /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group.
i don't think removing and reusing users is a good idea in practice.
what harm would there be in simply leaving the user account on the
system permenantly, with maybe locking the account and setting the
shell to /bin/false?
sean
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