I have a feeling this should be documented somewhere, but I can't seem to find anything about it. When catching up with the latest package updates just now I noticed I had a passwd.pacnew file in /etc. When merging in the changes I found I have two systemd user entries that don't appear in the upstream file: systemd-journal-remote:x:997:997:systemd Journal Remote:/:/usr/bin/nologin systemd-journal-upload:x:996:996:systemd Journal Upload:/:/usr/bin/nologin Are they safe to remove? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The results point out the fragility of programmer expertise: advanced programmers have strong expectations about what programs should look like, and when those expectations are violated--in seemingly innocuous ways--their performance drops drastically. -- Elliot Soloway and Kate Ehrlich
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