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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, David Kowis wrote:
> 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.)
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I believe we've all been of the understanding that we were not
discussing user accounts. :) The problem with removing accounts that
have been created, and possibly used, is that backups and logs may
refer to these accounts, as well as documentation.

- -sandalle

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