Re: Safe removal of a user while purging

On Saturday 29 June 2002 20:42, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Magnus Ekdahl
>
> | I'm trying to remove the clamav user when purging the clamav package. The
> | user clamav is created in postinst using:
>
> Why are you removing that user?

I think that 'dpkg -i packageXXX; dpkg -P packageXXX' should leave the system 
unchanged. So the clamav package should remove the users it adds.

> This will grant you a serious or grave bug.  Don't mess with
> /etc/{passwd,shadow} directly -- that will break if people use
> something like ldap for handling those files.

True, this is worse that bloating the system. Unless there is a good, safe 
and essential way to delete the clamav user I will remove the postrm script.

Still think bloating the system is bad though =(

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