Re: package adding users

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On 2004-04-06 Erik Bourget <erik@midmaine.com> wrote:
> What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian
> system?

Policy 9.2.
| 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. adduser will
| check for the existence of the user or group, and if necessary
| choose an unused id based on the ranges specified in adduser.conf.

               cu andreas