On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:10:09PM -0000, LaMont Jones wrote:
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> 1. puppetd is still running, despite the binary (and package) having been removed from the system.
Right - I've seen that as well on karmic systems. Which version of puppet were
you testing?
> 2. the puppet user and group created at install time were not removed.
>
Well. I've discussed that issue some time ago and it was suggested to never
remove locally created user and groups (in order to avoid sensitive files being
accessible by another system user if uid/gid are recycled). Is this use case
covered in the Debian policy?
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:10:09PM -0000, LaMont Jones wrote:
>
> 1. puppetd is still running, despite the binary (and package) having been removed from the system.
Right - I've seen that as well on karmic systems. Which version of puppet were
you testing?
> 2. the puppet user and group created at install time were not removed.
>
Well. I've discussed that issue some time ago and it was suggested to never
remove locally created user and groups (in order to avoid sensitive files being
accessible by another system user if uid/gid are recycled). Is this use case
covered in the Debian policy?
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