Re: /etc/group
On 2010-03-02 12:34 +0100, Alexey Salmin wrote:
> Just wondering: why there are so many users and groups which are not
> created on package installation?
Historical reasons, often. Most of these users and groups are expected
to exist on a Unix system. Besides, the list of static system users and
groups is really append-only: base-passwd must not remove a user or
group from existing systems for obvious reasons, so a UID or GID that
has been given out once cannot be reallocated ever.
If this were to be redesigned today, I suspect that users like news,
uucp, www-data or list would be allocated dynamically.
Sven
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