Bug#333862: debian-policy: Policy forbids account creation

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:46:57PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The section in the policy should say
> > Packages other than base-passwd must not modify /etc/passwd,
> > /etc/shadow, /etc/group or /etc/gshadow directly from their maintainer
> > scripts.
> 
> I'd suggest:
> 
> Maintainer scripts for packages must not modify any of /etc/passwd,
                                        ^^^^ insert "directly" here
> /etc/shadow, /etc/group or /etc/shadow, with the sole exception of the
> base-passwd package.

   Julian