On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:18 PM Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > thanks for your quick reply. > > I see, multiboot with different /etc but shared /usr or /local could > invite a lot of trouble if using different UIDs, indeed! Thanks for the > quick explanation. > > > (Apparently man used uid 13 in Debian 8 / Jessi but 6 in Debian 9 / >> > Stretch). >> >> AFAICS, user "man" has had UID 6 since at least Debian 6/squeeze >> > >From looking at an Ubuntu 16.04 System I administer, User "man" (uid 6) is, apparently the owner of /var/cache/man, which appears to be an area for translating man pages. Who creates this User? > > Ohh, this is interesting, so I wonder why I had a different value then, > maybe something else was wrong with my system then... > Could there be multiple Packages that might attempt to Create that User (man)? Best regards, Kenneth Parker
