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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Quoting Robert Figura <rfigura AT aubergine.zwischengesicht.de>:
> Am Monday 09 January 2006 22:11 schrieb David Kowis:
>
> To my perturbed thinking it appears that we shouldn't remove these users. If
> we remove the user we should as well remove all files owned by that user.
> Since when any new user is added it may get the same UID even if it is for
> another purpose or it may not get the same UID even if it is for the same
> purpose. We don't want unknown-uid-files left on our disk, do we?
I'm thinking about system users used by the software that's installed, 
not real people (like dkowis.) In my mind, any files that are owned by 
that user are tracked by the software and, as such, are removed upon 
dispel anyway. If that's not the case, then I'm mistaken. Also the 
UID/GID are stored within the grimoire so that sshd, for example, 
always get uid 110 (Note that I don't really know the uid for sshd, but 
it's not relevant, just for the example.)

> But i see nothing wrong with tracking users so we might have a tool to
> remove the user along with his possessions.
Again, for clarification, I'm not talking about useradd and userdel for 
users that equate to people in the real world. I have no intention 
whatsoever of tracking stuff like that. That is entirely in the realm 
of the systems administrator.

David Kowis

ISO Team Lead - www.sourcemage.org
SourceMage GNU/Linux

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