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Re: system users



OoO En  ce milieu  de nuit  étoilée du vendredi  21 novembre  2008, vers
03:19, Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> disait :

>> Is there some  way to easily retrieve all postinst  scripts to check how
>> adduser is called?

> Yup, take a look at lintian.debian.org's lab in gluck.

> It only contains the maintainer scripts of main/i386, though.

Thanks for the tips!

Here is  the list of  package that  name the user  with the name  of the
source package:
 - ajaxterm: ajaxterm
 - approx: approx
 - apt-cacher-ng: apt-cacher-ng
 - asterisk: asterisk
 - backuppc: backuppc
 - bip: bip
 - blootbot: blootbot
 - citadel: citadel
 - clamsmtp: clamsmtp
 - cntlm: cntlm
 - dansguardian: dansguardian
 - debarchiver: debarchiver
 - dnsmasq: dnsmasq
 - docvert: docvert
 - dovecot: dovecot
 - ejabberd: ejabberd
 - email-reminder: email-reminder
 - fcron: fcron
 - fetchmail: fetchmail
 - freevo: freevo
 - gdm: gdm
 - gkrellmd: gkrellmd
 - gnugk: gnugk
 - greylistd: greylistd
 - hobbit: hobbit
 - hplip: hplip
 - interchange: interchange
 - iodine: iodine
 - jffnms: jffnms
 - liquidsoap: liquidsoap
 - maradns: maradns
 - mldonkey: mldonkey
 - motion: motion
 - mpd: mpd
 - mpdscribble: mpdscribble
 - mt-daapd: mt-daapd
 - munin: munin
 - netmrg: netmrg
 - netplan: netplan
 - pdnsd: pdnsd
 - postgrey: postgrey
 - prayer: prayer
 - proftpd: proftpd
 - pyaimt: pyaimt
 - rancid: rancid
 - sbnc: sbnc
 - slidentd: slidentd
 - smtpguard: smtpguard
 - spampd: spampd
 - spong: spong
 - stunnel4: stunnel4
 - sympa: sympa
 - varnish: varnish
 - vdradmin-am: vdradmin-am
 - zabbix: zabbix

The packages  that use a different  name but with no  apparent prefix or
suffix (maybe gforge should not be in this category) :
 - vde2: vde2-net
 - ez-ipupdate: ez-ipupd
 - postfwd: postfw
 - kolabd: kolab
 - openntpd: ntpd
 - tinyerp-server: terp
 - policyd-weight: polw
 - zope-common: zopeuser
 - postgresql-common: postgres
 - pymilter: spf-milter-python
 - nfs-utils: statd
 - nss-ldapd: nslcd
 - net-snmp: snmp
 - gforge: anonscm-gforge scm-gforge www-gforge
 - hylafax: faxmaster
 - hal: haldaemon
 - dbus: messagebud
 - boxbackup: bbstored
 - calendarserver: caldavd
 - dtc-xen: dtc-xen-user
 - tomcat5.5: tomcat55
 - ident2: identd
 - batv-milter: batv-filter
 - nagios3: nagios
 - lastfmsubmitd: lastfm
 - gsmlib: gsmsms
 - mumble: mumble-server
 - openssh: sshd
 - fsp: ftp
 - vsftpd: ftp
 - bind9: bind
 - amavisd-new: amavis
 
And the ones that uses a prefix:
 - exim4: Debian-exim
 - lldpd: _lldpd

The list was built by hand. I hope to have not forgotten anything.

Some random remarks:
 - nobody uses prefixes
 - there are collisions (fsp, vsftpd)
 - some  names collides with  real user names  that I have  met (iodine,
   spong, prayer), this may vary from systems to systems but there is no
   way to override a username

BTW, the problem is similar with groups, especially since the default is
now to create a group for each user.
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