[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#502801: Apply the patch in 502801 to no longer import system users in passdb.tdb?

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> A patch is applied in Ubuntu for quite a while in order to avoid
> importing system users (UID<1000) into passdb.tdb from the maitnainer
> scripts.

> Any reason to not apply this patch? If there's one, then I'll mark the
> bug as wontfix and move on.... Otherwise, I'll apply the patch.

See my earlier comments in <20080330015442.GB31471 at dario.dodds.net>:

> I'm fairly indifferent to this patch.  I can't see any reason why system
> users should be excluded; adding them to the pdb doesn't give them passwords
> or otherwise permit people to connect as these users, it just makes them
> better visible to Samba - which means that if they do show up in any ACLs on
> shared files, clients will get a more user-friendly display.

> So conceptually I think this patch is wrong, but I don't have any strong
> opinion either way.

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