On Sep 7, 2005, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only reason for not wanting to remove accounts on package removal to > me is "accounts leaving stray files somewhere". > However, rpms should have always have control over all files it owns. Unfortunately rpms can't hunt for backup tapes containing and wipe content out of them just to keep them consistent. When you restore data from a backup tape, wouldn't it be nice to still have the user that owned that data? That's why it's policy on several locations to never ever reuse uids. If you need a new account, get the next available uid. If you need to close an account, change its password and shell to something unusable, and that's it. Leave the user information alone. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
