[distcc] Re: Red Hat packaging patch for 0.15

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Halls <halls at debian.org> writes:

  Chris> That is a bug - packages are supposed to remove their uids on
  Chris> purge and I think most already do.  Did you maybe look at
  Chris> packages which have been removed but not purged?

Some sysadmins make it a policy to never remove users (as Martin has
said, uids are plentiful).  Seeing uid numbers of file owners without
an association to the former username is one good reason to never
remove old users, but instead to set their shell to /bin/false.

Ben