Re: /etc/passwd in potato
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, David Rocher wrote:
> it's because other packages aren't allowed to change /etc/passwd
> (provide by base-passwd) cf Debian Policy Manual. but you are free
> to remove then!
The Debian Policy Manual says that packages may add users to the system
using 'adduser --system'. The only ids globally allocated by base-passwd
are those where the program needs a specific uid or gid compiled into the
binary. Interestingly, the manual says that the range 0-99 is for packages
that need a single id, while 60000-64999 is for packages that need
multiple ids. But qmail has uids 70-76...
As a side note, be careful when changing users' shells to /bin/false--some
packages depend on the shell being /bin/sh and you'll get minor breakage
if you change them.
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