Re: Orphaned User Accounts?
Here is an idea...Just throwing this out there. If the accounts are
placeholders, why not set them up on install with a shell of
/bin/false and then when a package that needs them is installed, one
of the steps would be to chsh to /bin/sh or whatever.
Obviously, this would be something to be accepted by the Project, the
individual stakeholders and the maintainers, but I just thought I
would throw it out there...
--b
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> Carlos Mennens writes:
>> I never installed Apache so why would there be a '/var/www' directory
>> or for that matter a 'www-data' user in '/etc/passwd'?
>
> So that if you ever do install Apache or any other Web server it will
> get UID 33 and GID 33. The entries you are complaining about are
> placeholders. The idea is to standardize the UIDs of the various system
> users. See section 9.2 of the Debian Policy manual.
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