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

[Russ Allbery]

Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:

> 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.

Wow, thank you for the quick fix!

> 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.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it.  Testing is testing; sometimes stuff
like this happens on a transient basis.  If someone notices, they can just
delete the user, and no harm done.  It's hardly the only system user that
gets created on a typical desktop system.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>