11124 – jabber-server.ebuild removes jabber group and user in postrm.

Bug 11124 - jabber-server.ebuild removes jabber group and user in postrm.

Summary: jabber-server.ebuild removes jabber group and user in postrm.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Bart Verwilst

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Reported:	2002-11-23 10:29 UTC by Andrey Ulanov
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Andrey Ulanov 2002-11-23 10:29:34 UTC

You shouldn't do that. There some reasons for such behavior:
  1. If you do "emerge jabber-server" it installs new jabber-server, but then removes old, and removes jabber group and user.
  2. If you do "emerge unmerge jabber-server" there could be left some files and directories owned by jabber group and user. And when you then add new user with adduser the uid of new user can be equal to uid of old jabber user. Sometimes it can be not very secure.

Comment 1 Bart Verwilst 2002-11-24 04:49:16 UTC

So i should just leave the user and group there after it removes it, and just show an einfo to remove them manually?

Comment 2 Andrey Ulanov 2002-11-24 05:24:52 UTC

Yes. I thinks it will be better. Many othe ebuilds don't remove users and groups after umerge. Look at apache.ebuild for example.