On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:27, Steven Pritchard wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:10:14PM -0400, Erik LaBianca wrote: > > RFE: rpm should have a %createuser and %creategroup directives that > > handle this sort of stuff. They should have flags to remove (or not) on > > uninstall, etc. > > No package should *ever* auto-remove users or groups. That's just > asking for trouble. Let the admin remove the user if necessary. > > Steve That's debatable, but either way ignores the reality that close to a decade RPMs from Red Hat have been doing exactly that. egrep '(user|group)del' /path/to/RHL9-specfiles/* | wc -l 39 Dax Kelson Guru Labs
