[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#749619: Bug#749619: upgrading libreoffice creates a new "firebird" system user

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Russ Allbery, 28.05.2014 09:28:27 -0700 |=-
> Package: firebird2.5-server-common
> Version: 2.5.2.26540.ds4-12
> Severity: normal
> 
> The root bug that I'm reporting is that I just upgraded libreoffice
> on a Debian jessie system and ended up with a new "firebird" system
> user.

This is fixed in -3 by moving the creation of the firebird user from 
-server-common.postinst to individual server packages, which are not 
pulled by libreoffice. The --shell option is also dropped so the user 
created has /bin/false for shell (the default for adduser --system). 
Thanks for the detailed bug report and sorry for causing trouble.

I wonder if there is a clean way to fix the situation for people who 
already have the user created because of the libreoffice upgrade.

I could possibly come up with something to change the shell to 
/bin/false if the user exists, is a system user and its shell is 
/bin/bash.

Dropping the user seems way dangerous to do safely, but I am open to 
suggestions.

Cheers,
    dam
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