Re: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system > which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were alre

Re: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > hmm will it be fixed or isn't it treated as a bug ? dpkg -s only knows about a file if it is actually in a package. /etc/passwd is not contained in one package. The installation creates it, then base-passwd updates it. This is not a bug.

Re: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> On 01-Sep-2000 Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: -> > Hello, -> > -> > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user -> > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser -> > --system which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were -> > alrea

RE: /etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-2000 Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user > exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system > which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were already > allocated for som

/etc/passwd & user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were already allocated for some users sometie ago, why not to use them?). dpkg -S /etc/pa