On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 02:01:09AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > But seriously, I'd personally be a bit annoyed at having to reconfigure > > several dozen systems. > > You wouldn't have to, it's perfectly possible to do this unattended. > qmail is a special case since we should know exactly what files have > which owner. ? > The advantage is simple: if we get all references to non-free removed > from main the FSF will distribute Debian as well. Having the qmail uids > in the default passwd would clearly be unacceptable for them. In that case it should be ok to remove qmail from the default passwd file, create the qmail ids as necessary, and leave the current uid's unassigned (in the oops, we screwed up category). -- Mike Stone
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