Here is an idea...Just throwing this out there. If the accounts are placeholders, why not set them up on install with a shell of /bin/false and then when a package that needs them is installed, one of the steps would be to chsh to /bin/sh or whatever.
Obviously, this would be something to be accepted by the Project, the individual stakeholders and the maintainers, but I just thought I would throw it out there... --b On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote: > Carlos Mennens writes: >> I never installed Apache so why would there be a '/var/www' directory >> or for that matter a 'www-data' user in '/etc/passwd'? > > So that if you ever do install Apache or any other Web server it will > get UID 33 and GID 33. The entries you are complaining about are > placeholders. The idea is to standardize the UIDs of the various system > users. See section 9.2 of the Debian Policy manual. > -- > John Hasler > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4kuzfbo....@thumper.dhh.gt.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinmseccftds-pocya--3g5uzgm4tsth5ojp+...@mail.gmail.com
