* Humberto Massa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 18:28]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 18:09]: > >>"We can provide a sensible default for system users' removals that > >>copes with most situations and leave a door open (through debconf) > >>to sysadmins that want to fiddle with system users." > > > >I really want to warn to try to be too smart by half. Reserving the > >name/uid-space by not removing the accounts works reasonable well, > >and having at maximum 5-10 unnecessary accounts is also not the end > >of the world either. > > Problem being, if daemons don't remove their (supposedly exclusive-use) > accounts, you can end in two years with 100 unnecessary accounts in a > workstation.
How many daemon packages do you install in two years? I even doubt that we have 100 packages that add accounts at all in debian. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
