Bug#328615: marked as done (Debian-exim username considered bad)

Fri Sep 16 11:48:23 UTC 2005

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:22:57 +0100
From: Michael Stevens <mstevens at etla.org>
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Package: exim4
Version: 4.50-8

I have the following exim4 packages installed:

ii  exim4          4.50-8         metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) install=
ati
ii  exim4-base     4.50-8         support files for all exim MTA (v4) packa=
ges
ii  exim4-config   4.50-8         configuration for the exim MTA (v4)
ii  exim4-daemon-l 4.50-8         lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon

This creates a local user:

Debian-exim:x:102:102::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false

This username:

a) Contains a capital letter.I cannot find any other unix system I
have access to that has a user with a capital letter in the username.

b) Contains the word 'Debian', which seems rather redundant, given
that it's on a debian system. If it's really felt that the word
'Debian' is appropriate, I propose all other debian system users have
'Debian-' prepended to their usernames.

c) Is too long for the output of common tools like ps, and is
truncated to 'Debian-', which is useless for working out the purpose
of the user.

I suggest it be changed to something like 'exim' or 'exim4' in a future rel=
ease.

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:41:08 +0200
From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>
To: Michael Stevens <mstevens at etla.org>, 328615-done at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#328615: Debian-exim username considered bad
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:22:57PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
> From: Michael Stevens <mstevens at etla.org>
> This creates a local user:
> 
> Debian-exim:x:102:102::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
> 
> I suggest it be changed to something like 'exim' or 'exim4' in a future release.

See /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian-accountname

Closing the bug.

Please do not file bugs which are already open multiple times, tagged
wontfix, and where a DEDICATED README file is available in the package.

Greetings
Mac

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