Bug#621833: System users: removing them
sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> writes:
> I was always given the impression that adduser and friends "wanted" to
> be able to handle non-local accounts, but nobody had ever extended it to
> do so? So I think it's a bit shaky to make that assumption.
> But if we specifically limit the scope for users/groups being locked to
> "only if they're in /etc/passwd,/etc/group" then yes I think that the
> recommendation makes sense. But then we probably ought to also have
> some boilerplate examples of exactly how it should be done.
If that's really a future intention, maybe add a no-op --local flag to
adduser that says not to do that, should it ever have been added?
> On that note, I just read over 9.2 and see we don't have anything about
> the right behavior for adding users/groups there either, and you have
> similar problems along those lines. Actually it seems that 9.2 as a
> whole could use a bit of a facelift :)
Yes.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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