[or-cvs] r13205: postinst: Remove the check that requires the debian-tor user (tor/trunk/debian)

[weasel at seul.org]

Author: weasel
Date: 2008-01-21 09:44:56 -0500 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 13205

Modified:
   tor/trunk/debian/changelog
   tor/trunk/debian/tor.postinst
Log:
postinst: Remove the check that requires the debian-tor user to have a uid
between 100 and 999.  There is no good reason to require this.  If the local
admin moves the system users/uid-space to some other range then they probably
have a good reason for that.


Modified: tor/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-21 03:46:34 UTC (rev 13204)
+++ tor/trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-21 14:44:56 UTC (rev 13205)
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+tor (0.2.0.17-alpha-1+svn) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * postinst: Remove the check that requires the debian-tor user
+    to have a uid between 100 and 999.  There is no good reason
+    to require this.  If the local admin moves the system users/uid-space
+    to some other range then they probably have a good reason for that.
+
+ -- Peter Palfrader <weasel at debian.org>  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:43:52 +0100
+
 tor (0.2.0.17-alpha-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream version.

Modified: tor/trunk/debian/tor.postinst
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/debian/tor.postinst	2008-01-21 03:46:34 UTC (rev 13204)
+++ tor/trunk/debian/tor.postinst	2008-01-21 14:44:56 UTC (rev 13205)
@@ -9,15 +9,6 @@
 # the sanit(ar)y checks otherwise we can safely create it.
 
 if [ "$uid" ]; then
-    # guess??? the checks!!!
-    if [ $uid -ge 100 ] && [ $uid -le 999 ]; then
-    	echo "debian-tor uid check: ok"
-    else
-    	echo "ERROR: debian-tor account has a non-system uid!"
-	echo "Please check /usr/share/doc/tor/README.Debian on how to"
-	echo "correct this problem"
-	exit 1
-    fi
     if [ "$home" = "/var/lib/tor" ]; then
         echo "debian-tor homedir check: ok"
     else