[Piuparts-devel] Bug#1095408: Bug#1095408: piuparts: inconsistent results between firebird3.0 and firebird4.0 wrt policy-rc.d

[Holger Levsen]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 11:36:04PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Yeah I think this is misguided. Most of the time you cannot
> guarantee no files exist on the filesystem owned by the user.
> Later the uid will be reallocated to a new user, and then you've got
> a real problem.
> 
> Apparently in this case you also cannot guarantee no programs are
> still running as the user in question.
> 
> AFAIK most packages that create users also leave them on the system
> for the stated reasons.

yes! (to everything.)

sadly this is still under documented, eg see #399028 "developers-reference:
best practices to create and delete system accounts".

also, piuparts doesn't complain about users left after purge for this
very reason.


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cheers,
	Holger

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