[X2go-dev] Installing x2goserver-one in Debian added 300 users to fuse and x2gousers groups

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 11/20/2010 10:54 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
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>> Also, what's the point in adding users like "apache" and "mysql" to
>> x2gousers and fuse?
>
> This has never happened on my systems that I access as a local
> administrator. You are using Ubuntu... what version? Are you using
> apache and mysql from the Ubuntu archive or do you have a special blend
> of the LAMP software. The X2go x2goconfigusers script only adds users
> that have uidNumber 1000-29999. The apache and mysql user should be
> system users, that is have a uidNumber <1000. So maybe there is
> something irregular...

I'm using Debian 5.  But I have my own management of users, since they 
were all imported from other machines (running Red Hat), with a history 
of over 10 years.

You can never assume that UIDs mean anything.  They are not hardcoded.

Perhaps it would be better to simply prompt the user during installation 
whether to add users to the groups or not with one of those ncurses 
prompt dialogs that I sometimes get when installing or updating other 
packages.