Re: Adding and removing a user automatically
"Zed" == Zed Pobre <zed@moebius.interdestination.com> writes:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>> Um! Adding users is a gross violation of policy.
> This is a serious problem. IRAF functions at the administrative
> level by using a created username (iraf/nobody) and running as that
> user (don't some mailing list programs (majordomo even?) run this
> way?). It even gets a home directory (init-type files go there). I
> have been informed that if I delete that user, a number of advanced
> functions stop working. If this cannot be done, the only other
> thing I can do is to put a very lengthy message in the postinst for
> the iraf main package explaining step by step what the user needs to
> do to finish the installation by hand, and then copy that message to
> /usr/doc/iraf. Or I can write the postinst script, call it
> iraf-presetup, and stick it in /usr/sbin and tell the user to call
> it as root. Technically, then, they are adding the user. Should I
> copy this to debian-policy?
No, you may be able to get a user allocated. But you must ask the
base-password maintainer Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net> that you
want a user added, describe what it's for. I'm CC Galen here.
This goes for all packages. Sounds like we need a lintian check!
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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