* Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a (jfs@computer.org) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:52:30AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > Not unless bind needs a static uid (which I can't see a reason for). > > > But it's better for sysadmins if all their bind users are the same uid. > Isn't so? Otherwise you might end with problems if you copy files from a > DNS server to it's backup (all running Debian and with a 'bind' user), > sharing files through NFS, tarring and taking them to a new > installation... > > It's much better and is much more consistent. Would you please ask > base-passwd maintainer for one? No, don't. If admins want it that way, admins will set it up that way. By default, since the vast majority of people will *not* have bind installed, do *not* require everyone have a user they will not use. I would, however, ask that the user be asked before creating the user (if that isn't already the case...) since not all admins will want it either. In fact, I feel that should be true for *all* user changes (the admin should be asked first). Setups with centralized user data will require different things. Obviously sensible testing should be used to see if a user exists (not sure what is there now, obviously grep'ing the passwd file doesn't cut it tho). Stephen
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