Re: exploring debian's users and groups

[Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>]

>>>>> "JH" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

    JH> gnats:

    JH> HELP: Evidently used by gnats. And it needs a static set why?

GNATS holds its database files under that user and accesses them via
`gnats' setuid programs and/or programs run by an Internet superserver
under `gnats'.  Though it's hardly a common setup nowadays, the database
can be shared (i.e. mounted, either r/o or r/w) by several machines,
AFAIK nothing prevents this at least.  This is, I *guess*, the reason
why the uid is static.

Milan Zamazal

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