On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:56:51AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:26:48PM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > It's not critical. If you're sharing user IDs between boxes you should > > > be setting that up as early as possible anyway. It's certainly a bug > > > that it doesn't use 'addgroup --system', but I think you're overreacting > > > with the severity. You can always renumber the users. > > > > Surely it's serious though (policy violation, 10.2.2)? > > "Packages which need a user or group, but can have this user or group > > allocated dynamically and differently on each system, should use adduser > > --system to create the group and/or user." > > "should" -> not serious. See the very beginning of that document. Ah, yes. :-) "SHOULD Only when Marketing insists." -- RFC 2549 -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 5th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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