[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#444781: during samba install bogus useraccounts (like debian-exim, www-data, etc) are added to the samba user database

[Michael Schmitt]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.24-6etch4
Severity: minor

Hi folks,

during install all accounts from /etc/passwd are added to the samba database, why?

Importing accout for root...ok
Importing accout for daemon...ok
Importing accout for bin...ok
Importing accout for sys...ok
Importing accout for sync...ok
Importing accout for games...ok
Importing accout for man...ok
Importing accout for lp...ok
Importing accout for mail...ok
Importing accout for news...ok
Importing accout for uucp...ok
Importing accout for proxy...ok
Importing accout for www-data...ok
Importing accout for backup...ok
Importing accout for list...ok
Importing accout for irc...ok
Importing accout for gnats...ok
Importing accout for nobody...ok
Importing accout for statd...ok
Importing accout for sshd...ok
Importing accout for Debian-exim...ok

Is there any deeper sense behind this that I just don't understand? I think this is not intentional and therefore I report this as a bug.

regards
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  debconf  1.5.11                          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1  2.2.41-1                        Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1 2.4.32-1                        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-13etch2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libcupsy 1.2.7-4                         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutl 1.4.4-3                         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-7etch4                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.3                     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-m 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-r 0.79-4                          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0 1.10-3                          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  logrotat 3.7.1-3                         Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1                   Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase  4.29                            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  procps   1:3.2.7-3                       /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-co 3.0.24-6etch4                   Samba common files used by both th
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13                      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  smbldap-tools                 0.9.2-3    Scripts to manage Unix and Samba a

-- debconf information:
  samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/tdbsam: false
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: true