Re: Bug#162211: chown: 'man': invalid user -- man-db should create man user if it's missing.
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
I have no idea. What seems not very wise to me is to have two packages
creating the user. I have nothing against moving the responsability of
creating the man user to man-db.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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