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| From | Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? |
| Date | 2019-08-19 15:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ywPJM-5e4-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:03:48PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > >From looking at an Ubuntu 16.04 System I administer, User "man" (uid 6) is, > apparently the owner of /var/cache/man, which appears to be an area for > translating man pages. Who creates this User? I don't know about Ubuntu, because this is debian-user. In Debian, the preinst script for the base-passwd package will create a bunch of system users if /etc/passwd is not present, and groups if /etc/group is not present. See /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-passwd.preinst for details. One might ponder under what conditions, exactly, this script would be executed while these files are not yet present. I don't know the inner workings of the debian-installer, so I'm not sure whether this is just a safety net, or an expected part of a normal system installation.
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Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 00:20 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-08-17 00:30 +0200
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Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 05:10 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-19 15:20 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-19 20:00 +0200
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Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-19 15:30 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-19 19:30 +0200
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