Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:26:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:01, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > I believe this was done because there is some Debian policy that a
> > > weird user name must be created in this case.
> >
> > No, the weird account name was chosen in absense of a formal policy
> > to minimize the chance of clashes with account names deliberately
> > created by the local admin.
>
> I never did understand: what was the problem with "mail"?
First, installing exim4 would probably re-use the account "mail" which
might be assigned to a user. This might grant excessive rights to that
user (for example, access rights to the mail queue).
Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files
belonging to that user to be deleted.
Greetings
Marc
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