* Thomas Bushnell BSG (tb@becket.net) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes: > > By knowing what the package uses the user for. This is somewhat akin to > > the PostgreSQL package's question "do you want your data files to be > > purged upon package removal", or the fact that the default Postgres > > installation uses ident and the 'postgres' user is the superuser for the > > database (meaning you're going to be su'ing to postgres probably a fair > > bit). > > How do you know that the system administrator hasn't chowned a file to > that UID? Same way you know that the system administrator hasn't modified a file in /usr/bin. Thanks, Stephen
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