Bug#654705: manage user/group creation from apt or dpkg
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:31:24PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Currently packages can add users and groups from their postinst scripts
>
> The admin has no clear indication which users/groups might be created
> when selecting packages to install
>
> This does not meet the needs of all administrators. For example:
> - admin wants to use LDAP
> - admin wants identical numeric IDs on all hosts to simplify use of
> backup and rsync software (e.g. Bacula backs up file ownership numerically)
>
> A more controlled solution might involve some of the following:
>
> - in addition to checking for disk space, `apt-get install' would check
> if all required users exist
> - apt or dpkg would create the users required by the requested packages
> - a setting in dpkg.cfg or apt.conf.d would allow the admin to disable
> automatic user creation (in other words, apt-get install would abort
> before any change to the system and just give the admin a list of
> missing users to create manually)
This is something dpkg would have to do.
> Workaround: the admin can do things like creating a symlink from
> (useradd|adduser) to /bin/false to ensure that dpkg fails on unexpected
> user creation. However, this potentially leaves packages partially
> installed.
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