Subject: Re: bin account obsolescence
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@gmx.de>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/24/2004 20:44:31
Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:34:33PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer:
> In article <20040624154913.GA8527@knox.mines.edu> you wrote:
> > Now that bin hasn't owned any files on the system for a few years, how do
> > people feel about having the bin account removed from src/etc/master.passwd?
> 
> miyu% grep uname=bin /usr/cvs/src-2.0/obj.i386/destdir.i386/METALOG
> miyu% 
> 
> indeed... fun. 
> 
> Fine with me. :)

last time i installed cdrtools ~july (not from pkgsrc), it installed
files with bin as the owner; no idea why.  point being that this pseudo
user has been around for ages and some may rely upon it.  seems silly
to remove it.