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Re: Questions regarding the base system



Why would the base system create a user? I am running the base system
and a few other things on some unit here that should not allow anything
going on except superuser logins.

On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

liw>Christoph Lameter:
liw>> You might have misunderstood me. I want adduser removed from the base
liw>> system not from debian altogether.
liw>
liw>The base system needs to create a user. If adduser is not in
liw>the base system, then the base system needs to duplicate the
liw>functionality of adduser. Not a good idea.
liw>
liw>> But that is a good place for people to start with and it should be easy to
liw>> just decompress that huge file into a partition. And also fast.
liw>
liw>I'm getting the impression that you want by-pass dpkg. Have you
liw>considered configuration? Dependencies outside base+standard?
liw>
liw>> Will you do it?
liw>
liw>No, but it's still the better solution.
liw>
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