Re: Bug#162211: chown: 'man': invalid user -- man-db should create man user if it's missing.

[Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net>]

tony mancill wrote:

> That being said, perhaps base-passwd could stuff a bit more information
> into to comment field for "distribution-managed" accounts in order to make
> things a bit more self-documenting.  (And therefore easier for sercurity
> conscious admins who may be paring down the cruft in /etc/passwd...)
> Maybe something like:
> 
> man:x:6:100:man (reqd for man-db pkg):/var/cache/man:/bin/sh

I think /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README would be the right place for
these comments. This file already documents some accounts in the range
uid > 60000, so perhaps it could be extended to document all the
standard users and groups?

Craig