On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:51:29 +0100 "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > > > AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using > > the same user. > > > > Why not? There are already multiple packages that use the same user, > e.g. www-data. You should only create it and never remove to avoid > breakages for other packages installed at the same time. www-data is a globally allocated user. It would of course be possible to switch to such a user, but that would need changes of base-passwd and all jabber-related packages. I'm not sure, if it's worth the trouble. I'm also not sure if a consensus would be reached about the necessity of a globally allocated jabber user in Debian. Especially as I don't see much chance of that package getting into Debian main, given that it's practically unmaintained by upstream. Cheers, harry
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