2010/11/20 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 06:57:16PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: >> Interesting. But the short version of that means that all those >> users are useless in their current form, and could be removed? > > An administrator might decide to enable one of these accounts, but I'd > say that would be pretty unwise. Maybe if your computer is absolutely > never attached to a network :-) > > The only other things I can think of: > > - Could there be the odd file that is owned by one of these users? > (Likely a bug I would think ...) Is there any rpm error message when you install package with such file and user isn't exist? > > - It's required by some standard like POSIX or FHS. My google-fu > turns up nothing right now, but I could have missed something. Yeah, possible. But to me it means that these standards need to be updated. It seems to me that ancient, obsolete things should be removed (someone may want to create museum page - "Antique things that have been removed" :)), not preserved for ages. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Best regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
