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



Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Looks like a bad idea to me. Should base-passwd need to change the userid of
> user man, it would induce a subtle bug on the man-db package that's quite
> difficult to track.

Why would base-passwd do that? The man user doesn't need to be static
I think.

Wichert (who is slowly revamping base-passwd again).

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